Odder Quotes

“How to Say Goodbye (to an otter):
Be proud. After long months, know you've done your best, that 'teaching' and 'loving' are different words for the same thing.”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder

“No,”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder: The Novel

“But then, in fairness, nobody’s perfect.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder

“Be proud. After long months, know you’ve done your best, that teaching and loving are different words for the same thing.”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder: The Novel

“Odder,”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder: The Novel

“whirlpool.”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder: The Novel

“She died.”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder: The Novel

“ball of fluff”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder: The Novel

“A keystone, that’s called, and without it everything falls, like a tower of blocks or a house of cards. It’s the same with keystone species— beavers, wolves, prairie dogs, bees, desert tortoises, sea otters— they are nature’s glue, holding habitats together.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“A keystone, that’s called, and without it everything falls, like a tower of blocks or a house of cards.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“She doesn’t just ride the waves, she makes them.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“First we play, then we eat, says Odder.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“abalones and sea urchins, octopuses and sea stars, mussels and crabs and clams,”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“the queen of play”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“Bye, Jazz.” “Bye, Twyla.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“Those animals are called humans, my dear, Holly said.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“They call me Holly, said the smaller female. And that’s Gracie over there.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“Still, she does recall one piece of advice her mother used to repeat: Stay away from sharks. Stay away from humans. Stay away from all that you don’t understand.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“An otter’s life goes like this: eat groom sleep eat groom sleep eat groom sleep”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“Something about the way the little pup never settled, something about the way her eyes were always full of questions.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“Friends call #156 “Odder,”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“where is she where is she where is she”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“When Odder was born to her mother, Ondine,”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“Odder glances at the faraway kayaker, now just a drifting dot, so small he might be an egret or a marsh wren. Because of them, she says, and then she plunges under the waves.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“Stay away from sharks. Stay away from humans. Stay away from all that you don’t understand.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel

“Otters are used to constant movement.”
― Charles Santoso, Odder: The Novel