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“Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

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

“Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.”
― Katherine Alice Applegate, The Beginning

“You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.”
― Katherine Alice Applegate, Beach Blondes: June Dreams / July's Promise / August Magic

“Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“They think I'm too old to cause trouble.
Old age is a powerful disguise.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Diversion

“I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid?
Gotta go with stupid.
It’s not the easy way out. Self-pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism, that’s tough.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Proposal

“Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Imaginary friends are like books. We're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.â€� It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it.”
― Katherine Applegate

“The names are mine, but they're not me.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.

I tried to smile. For him.”
― Katherine Alice Applegate, The Beginning

“ Tobias asked.
"Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on
the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into
dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?”
― Katherine Alice Applegate, The Message

“Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into." -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill”
― Katherine Alice Applegate, The Alien

“Different languages, different food, different customs. That's our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.”
― Katherine Alice Applegate, The Unknown

“it's never to late to be what you might have been”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Oh, I'm sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing," Marco said. "Just tell them
we're Animorphs."
"Tell them we're what?" Rachel asked.
"Idiot teenagers with a death wish," Marco said.
"Animorphs." I tried the word out. It sounded okay.”
― Katherine Alice Applegate, The Invasion