Home of the Brave Quotes

“About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“Today, tomorrow, sooner or later, you will meet someone who is lost, just as you yourself have been lost, and as you will be lost again someday. And when that happens, it is your duty to say "I've been lost, too. Let me help you find your way home.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“Life changes, so you must hope.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“The grocery store
has rows and rows
of color, of light,
of easy hope.
Hannah moves down the aisle,
but I stand like a tree rooted firm,
my eyes too full of this place,
with its answers to prayers
on every shelf.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“She is like a newborn sun, fresh with promise, the just beginning moments before the day fills like a bucket with good and bad, sweat and longing.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“I remember something my mama
used to say on dark days:
If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can walk, you can dance.

Ganwar, I whisper,
what if she never comes?”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“His voice was deep,
like a storm coming,
but gentle,
like the rain ending.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“The grocery store
has does and does
of color, of light,
of easy hope.
Hannah moves down the aisle,
but I stand like a tree rooted firm,
my eyes too full of this place,
with its answers to prayers
on every shelf.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

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

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

“I try to understand, but all I hear is a river of words, rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface. Now and then a word I know darts up like a sparkling fish, but then it’s all dark moving water again.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“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

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

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

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

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

“Did you not see her?
The brave cow
in the snow?”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“I look at our faces
and see all the colors of the earth---
brown and pink and yellow and white and black---
and yet we all are sitting at the same desks,
wanting to learn the same things.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“I remember something my mama
used to say on dark days:
If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can walk, you can dance.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“You can have your dogs and cats,
your gerbils and hamsters
and sleek sparkling fish.
But you will have lived just half a life
if you never love a cow.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“Of all the things I didn't know
about America,
this is the most amazing:
I didn't know there would be so many tribes
from all over the world.
How could I have imagined
the way they walk through the world
side by side
without fear,
all free to gaze at the same sky
with the same hopes?”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“I hope they will have stories
at my school.
If they don't know how,
perhaps I can teach them.
It isn't such a hard thing.
All you must do is say
Once there was...
and then let your hoping find the words.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“She says, Don't eat the mystery meat
if you value your life.
Then she points to a brown wet pile
on my plate and makes a face that says.
bad taste.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“But you'll never really feel like an American,
Ganwar says. You'll see.

Why? I ask.

Ganwar shrugs.
Because they won't let you.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“We are like a cow and a goat,
wanting to be friends
but wondering if it
can ever be.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“⭐
He did not say no, I realize.
So I try again,
just like I would have
with my own father.

Sometimes if you ask enough fathers turn maybe
into yes.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“The stories would lift me up,
the words like a breeze beneath
butterfly wings,
and take me far from the pain in my belly
and the tight knot of my heart

I hope they will have stories
at my school.
If they don't know how,
perhaps I can teach them.
It isn't such a hard thing.
All you must do is say
Once there was...
and let your hoping find the words.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave