Top 100 Katherine Applegate Quotes
#1. Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens
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#2. 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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#3. You're sunny. You keep showing up here." Diver
"I'm not sunny, I'm alcohol. No, no, I mean, I'm Summer," Summer says.
"Don't say that," the little boy said, suddenly frightened. "You're disturbing my wa.
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#4. Now I draw every day ... If I get tired and need a break, I eat my crayons.
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#7. 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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#8. Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
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#11. 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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#12. Are you with us?" Prince Jake asked. I said. "Don't call me 'Prince.'" I said again.
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#13. Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.
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#16. Ruby.
"She's here, Stella," I whisper "Ruby's safe. Just like I promised.
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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. Don't worry dreams aren't real. They're just neurons firing randomly in your brain.
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#23. 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.
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#24. The only person she knew at all was Marquez, and Marquez seemed to have been possessed by the music.
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#25. 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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#26. Humans. Rats have bigger hearts. Roaches have kinder souls. Flies have-
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. I guess none of us will get through this without some terrible sin. This will be mine.
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#30. 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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#33. 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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#34. Death's gruesome face taunts:
soulless eyes, crimson grimace.
I really hate clowns.
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#35. Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.
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#37. 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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#38. If you're stuck you could always double up with me at my place. It's the size of a postage stamp, but the roses are the size of poodles. So it sort of evens out. -Austin
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#40. 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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#42. 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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#43. It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
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#44. So he taped a sign on the bathroom door that said OFFICE OF MR. THOMAS WADE. My mom put a sign next to it that said I'D RATHER BE FISHING.
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#45. They think I'm too old to cause trouble.
Old age is a powerful disguise.
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#48. 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.
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#49. I've fought for more than three years. I was just thirteen when I started. I'm sixteen now, though that fact, like so many facts, has been deliberately obscured in the secret accounts we've kept.
I'm a sixteen-year-old kid named Jake Berenson, and I am the leader of the Animorphs.
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#51. am talking to my imaginary friend. I invented him when I was seven. He is here in our bathtub. He has a bubble beard.
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#53. They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth. Rachel
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#54. So, you propel rocks at me! You'll be very sorry you ever propelled a rock at me, human.
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#55. 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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#58. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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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#63. Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.
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#64. I have been in my domain for nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days. Alone. For
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#65. Okay," I said. "I'll be there, but I promise to complain the entire time.
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#66. Maybe dreams aren't in your head. Maybe dreams are memories of another universe.
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#68. 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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#69. (Are you okay?) Tobias asked.
I raised my hand to look at it. Fingers. Five of them.
"I don't know? Am I okay?
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#72. 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.
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#73. I can feel him. He feels real. He smells like wet cat. He has fingers. Cats do not have fingers.
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#74. Rachel would be beautiful in the middle of mud slides and hailstorms. On a sweet, sunny day, she made my heart ache.
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#75. You are the One and Only Ivan," he calls.
I nod, then turn toward my family, my life, my home.
"Mighty Silverback," I whisper.
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#76. 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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#77. 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.
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#78. I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
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#79. 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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#80. Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?
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#81. Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun?
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#95. And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.
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#96. In dreams you lose normal cause and effect. You jump around in time. This is reality. Jalil
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#98. Interesting. Claws and teeth and ferocity mixed with the subtlety to manipulate creatures larger than itself. A worthy creature.
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#100. She seemed beautiful to me. Is that strange? I suppose it is. But there is a compelling beauty in the sight of someone seemingly so small and yet so dangerous.
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