Katherine Applegate > Quotes

“Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled, hearts mended - you perform the best kind of magic. ...every time you give just the right book to just the right child, you're saying, "You, my friend, have potential." That is a gift. That is a miracle. And that is what you do, each of you, every single day.”
― Katherine Applegate

“Morning is like a gift you get to open every single day.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“Los humanos hablan demasiado. Parlotean como chimpancés, y congestionan el mundo con su ruido, aunque no tengan nada que decir.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Those are the stars that will guide my path home.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“It’s just so complicated,” Tobble said. “Nothing is black and white. It’s all shades of gray.”
Khara spoke for the first time. “You are right. But don’t let the complications stop you from taking a stand, Tobble. When you know in your soul that something is evil, you must fight it. But you fight with honor. With mercy. With fairness.”
― Katherine Applegate, The First

“Seems to me there are lots of ways to be brave, Bob," he said.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“In dreams you lose normal cause and effect. You jump around in time. This is reality. Jalil”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“I felt like I’d taken off an itchy sweater on a cold day: relieved to be rid of it, but surprised by how chilly the air turned out to be.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.”
― Katherine Applegate, Falling for Claire

“I mean, I’m not an art guy. To me, art is a glop of spray cheese on a cheese dog with extra grated cheese on top.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Lou pushes a plate of cookies
in front of us.
Chocolate pieces tease
like jewels in sand.
Please, she says, have some.

I don't want to be impolite,
so I take five.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“Kek finds sun when the sky is dark.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“I have been in my domain for nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days. Alone. For”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“But I figured out after a while that I couldn't spend my life punishing everyone who deserved to be punished."

"So you just forgive them?" Diana said.

He shrugged. "I guess so. Not because they deserve to be forgiven. They don't. It's just that when you go around hating people and wanting to hurt them... You just can't do that. That isn't life. You forgive them so you can live.”
― Katherine Applegate, August Magic

“I guess getting out of homelessness doesn’t happen all at once, either. We were lucky. Some people live in their cars for years. I’m not looking on the bright side. It was pretty scary. And stinky. But my parents took care of us the best they could. After a month, my dad got a part-time job at a hardware store. My mom picked up some extra waitressing shifts, and my dad kept singing for tips. Every time his fishing sign got wet, I made him a new one. Slowly they started saving money, bit by bit, to pay for a rental deposit on an apartment. It was sort of like getting over a cold. Sometimes you feel like you’ll never stop coughing. Other times you’re sure tomorrow is the day you’ll definitely be well.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“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

“I am Ivan. I am a gorilla.

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

“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

“I guess none of us will get through this without some terrible sin. This will be mine.”
― Katherine Applegate, Elfangor's Secret

“I hear the fear and hope fighting in my voice.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“I turned to him and kissed him, slowly lingeringly, my hands running over the hard, smooth curves and angles of his body. It wasn't that first kiss so many months before. This one was big and complicated and full of colours and textures. It held stories in it, and memories, and that made it even better.”
― Katherine Applegate

“Hollows are proof that something bad can become something good with enough time and care and hope.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“Lesson Number One in Everworld: There’s them, and there’s us. And any day we can keep them from destroying us, that’s a victory.”
― Katherine Applegate, Land of Loss

“I guess becoming homeless doesn’t happen all at once. My mom told me once that money problems sort of sneak up on you. She said it’s like catching a cold. At first you just have a tickle in your throat, and then you have a headache, and then maybe you’re coughing a little. The next thing you know, you have a pile of Kleenexes around your bed and you’re hacking your lungs up.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“If I never talked about it, I felt like it couldn’t ever happen again.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“I was an Andalite, all alone, far, far from home. Far from my own people. Except that sometimes your own people are not just the ones who look like you. Sometimes the people who are your own can be very different from you.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Decision

“Humans have very odd tastes. They think their music is beautiful. They are wrong. It is awful. All of it. And they completely ignore their greatest accomplishments: the cinnamon bun, the Snickers bar, the hot pepper, and the refreshing beverage called vinegar.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Alien

“The goal is to get as high as you can.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob