Top 100 Katherine Applegate Quotes
#2. I can feel him. He feels real. He smells like wet cat. He has fingers. Cats do not have fingers.
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#4. 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?
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#6. Maybe dreams aren't in your head. Maybe dreams are memories of another universe.
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#7. Okay," I said. "I'll be there, but I promise to complain the entire time.
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#8. Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.
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#10. For Marquez, the transition from standing around to dancing was instantaneous and total. It wasn't about looking cool, it was about losing all contact with the normal world, gong away to a place where her body and mind and the music were all the same thing.
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#11. I think that's his point," April said. "Not dumb, maybe. Just naive. I mean we come from a cynical age. Suspicious of everything. Maybe thats the advantage we have."
"Yeah our bad attitudes versus their swords and axes and giant wolves," Christopher said darkly.
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#12. Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out." (Marco) BAM! BAM! BAM! "Okay, so it's four trash cans," (Marco) " BAM! BAM! BAM! "Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!" (Jake)
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#15. What's that?" Seth asked, pointing.
"That?"
"That room. Isn't that a head?"
"Uh, that's, uh, out of order."
"What's wrong with it? Maybe I can fix it later."
Never tell a former handyman anything is broken. Never, ever, ever.
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#16. So, you propel rocks at me! You'll be very sorry you ever propelled a rock at me, human.
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#17. They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth. Rachel
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#20. Interesting. Claws and teeth and ferocity mixed with the subtlety to manipulate creatures larger than itself. A worthy creature.
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#24. Christopher flushed, gaped, and then laughed. I gave him credit for that. Lots of guys can laugh at someone else. Chistopher could laugh at himself. You see a lot less of that.
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#25. 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.
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#26. remember when my little sister first came home. But I don't remember trying to put her in a box so we could mail her back to the hospital. My
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#27. 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.
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#28. Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.
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#29. Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.
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#31. I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away
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#32. My visitors are often surprised when they see the TV Mack put in my domain. They seem to find it odd, the sight of a gorilla staring at tiny humans in a box. Sometimes I wonder, though: Isn't the way they stare at me, sitting in my tiny box, just as strange?
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#33. I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.
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#34. Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?
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#35. 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.
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#36. I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
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#38. But even I have enough sense to know the words "we have to win" are the first four steps on the road to hell.
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#39. The only person she knew at all was Marquez, and Marquez seemed to have been possessed by the music.
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#41. Don't worry dreams aren't real. They're just neurons firing randomly in your brain.
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#42. 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.
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#43. I felt the way you do the instant before you leap into the deep end of a pool. You're on your way to somewhere else. You're not there yet. But you know there's no turning back.
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#44. Jake? Do me a favor. Don't ever say 'so far, so good'. The only time anyone ever says 'so far, so good' is right before everything blows up in his face!-Marco
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#45. My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.
The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.
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#46. Ruby.
"She's here, Stella," I whisper "Ruby's safe. Just like I promised.
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#48. Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens
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#49. Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.
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#50. Are you with us?" Prince Jake asked. I said. "Don't call me 'Prince.'" I said again.
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#51. 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.
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#53. Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
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#54. 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
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#57. Now I draw every day ... If I get tired and need a break, I eat my crayons.
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#58. 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.
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#63. They think I'm too old to cause trouble.
Old age is a powerful disguise.
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#64. It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
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#65. Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. Humans. Altogether a contradictory and deeply flawed species. And yet ... And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy. Perhaps the only hope.
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#67. I also don't understand why I should let some guy fondle me when I know the relationship has no future.
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#68. Humans. Rats have bigger hearts. Roaches have kinder souls. Flies have-
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#69. Romance
Make eye contact.
Show your form.
Strut.
Grunt.
Throw a stick.
Grunt some more.
Make some moves.
Romance is hard work.
It looks easy on TV.
I'm not sure I will ever get the hang of it.
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#71. Death's gruesome face taunts:
soulless eyes, crimson grimace.
I really hate clowns.
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#72. 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.
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#75. Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.
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#76. I guess none of us will get through this without some terrible sin. This will be mine.
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#77. What bothered me most, though, was that I couldn't fix anything. I couldn't control anything. It was like driving a bumper car without a steering wheel. I kept getting slammed, and I just had to sit there and hold on tight.
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#78. Everything ends eventually. I guess that's what makes summer so intense, this feeling that it lasts for only a a short while and then it's back to reality.
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#79. Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.
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#80. She said she sometimes wondered if maybe bats are better human beings than human beings are.
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#81. Anger is precious. A silverback uses his anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do.
Here in my domain, there is no one to protect.
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#82. I can see my imaginary friend. I can hear him. I can talk to him. He is using a towel.
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#84. Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.
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#86. You know a guy is funny when a week later you can still feel the little knives he stuck in you.
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#88. I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.
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#90. I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.
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#91. Hope is a thing made only for people,
a scrap to hold onto
in darkness and in light
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#94. And right then I knew, the way you know that it's going to rain long before the first drop splatters on your nose, that something was about to change.
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#95. I felt exalted.
It was my moment. This was my place and my
time and my own perfection.
I was no longer afraid. Weird. If I'd had a
mouth I'd have smiled.
I said.
No one moved.
I asked.
No answer.
I said, almost laughing.
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#96. 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?
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#97. Don't be so sure,' Cassie said. 'We're fighting for Mother Earth. She has some tricks up her sleeves.'
'Good grief,' Marco said. 'Let's all buy Birkenstocks and go hug some trees.
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#100. She batted her eyelashes at me to show she was kidding.
I love it when she does that.
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