Katherine Applegate > Quotes

“Someday, if we won, if humanity survived, we'd be in the history books. Me and Jake and Rachel and Cassie and Tobias and Ax. They'd be household names, like generals from World War II or the Civil War. Patton and Eisenhower, Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee. Kids would study us in school. Bored, probably.
And then the teacher would tell the story of Marco. I'd be a part of history. What I was about to do. Some kid would laugh. Some kid would say, "Cold, man. That was really cold."
I had to do it, kid. It was a war. It's the whole point, you stupid, smug, smirking little jerk! Don't you get it?
It was the whole point. We hurt the innocent in order to stop the evil. Innocent Hork-Bajir. Innocent Taxxons. Innocent human-Controllers. How else to stop the Yeerks? How else to win?
No choice, you punk. We did what we had to do.
"Cold, man. The Marco dude? He was just cold.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Reunion

“They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of a thousand hands, back and forth and back again. They hunt frantically, stalking, pushing, grumbling. Then they leave, clutching bags filled with things—bright things, soft things, big things—but no matter how full the bags, they always come back for more.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Crenshaw and I didn’t chat much during those weeks on the road. There was always someone around to interrupt us. But that was okay. I knew he was there and that was enough. Sometimes that’s all you really need from a friend.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“Making others feel safe is a fine way to spend your days" -Red”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“Our stories don't make their homes in heavy books. We hold our stories in our songs.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“I don't think relationships just end for no reason," Diver said. "Sometimes it's too complicated for us to understand. All these interconnected things have to be just right before you can have love. That's why it's so amazing when it happens. Maybe it shouldn't be so surprising when it doesn't last. Maybe we should just be astounded that it happens at all.”
― Katherine Applegate, Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal

“The ones we love,” says Aunt Akello, “live forever in our hearts.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“I wonder, Byx," said Khara, "amid all the comfort and ease you have now, do you ever miss the days when we were racing from here to there, in constant danger, running for our lives?"
"No," I said. "Not at all."
Tobble shook his head. "I sure don't."
"Me neither," Renzo agreed.
"Nor do I," said Khara.
It didn't take a dairne to know that all four of us had lied.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Only

“Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.”
― Katherine Applegate

“I've never asked for a promise before, because promises are forever, and forever is an unusually long time.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“I also don’t understand why I should let some guy fondle me when I know the relationship has no future.”
― Katherine Applegate

“ I said, mimicking the Disney World commercials. ”
― K.A. Applegate

“I wonder if everyone carries the weight of secret sadness with them.

Perhaps if it weren't a secret, it wouldn't be such a burden.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Family

“Maybe dreams aren't in your head. Maybe dreams are memories of another universe.”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“You needed love to win at the game of music...I played of sadness. I played of loneliness. Despair. Love found and lost. I played of tragic misunderstanding and weary cynicism and defeat. I played of perseverance, endurance beyond all suffering. Endurance in the face of hopelessness, hope when even hope was a betrayal...And yet, though I played so much sadness, the music at the same time denied despair. How could anyone despair while music was being played?”
― Katherine Applegate

“Humans. Rats have bigger hearts. Roaches have kinder souls. Flies have—”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Tobias: They'll come. The Andalites will come. And until then...

Jake: Yeah. Until then, we fight.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Invasion

“A hole can be as real and solid as a boulder or a tree.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“Rachel would be beautiful in the middle of mud slides and hailstorms. On a sweet, sunny day, she made my heart ache.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Pretender

“Don't worry dreams aren't real. They're just neurons firing randomly in your brain.”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“How is it possible that sharing your heart with little ones can be both the most terrifying and the most beautiful thing in the world?”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Family

“Stella," I say after Julia and her father go home. "I can't sleep."

"Of course you can," she says. "You are the king of the sleepers."

"Shh," Bob says from his perch on my belly. "I'm dreaming about chili fries.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“A first friend is a true gift, because forever after, your heart knows what’s possible.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“Each book is like a door waiting to be unlocked.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Photosynthesize.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“I don't think you can stop being scared. I don't think that's what it means to be brave. I think being brave means being afraid and still doing what you must do.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Only

“Los humanos derrochan palabras. Las lanzan como cáscaras de plátano y las dejan ahí para que se pudran.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“I am Ivan. I am a gorilla.

It’s not as easy as it looks.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Her pictures were like pieces of a dream.
Ivan”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan