Katherine Applegate Quotes

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• I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

  Katherine Applegate

  Blue, Sky, Black

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• Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.

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  Memories, Who We Are, Helping

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• 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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  Waste, Toss, Bananas

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Especially when you're faced with hard times, you need to remember that life is either tragedy or comedy. For me, that's what the magic is. Life has remarkable, surprising moments that get you through the hard times.

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  Hard Times, Magic, Tragedy

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• About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.

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  Laughing, Chocolate, Taste

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• Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.

  Katherine Applegate

  Strong, Brave, Said

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• When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

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  Drawing, Quiet, Feels

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• Pain is life. Life is pain.

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  Pain, Life Is, Life Is Pain

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• Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

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  Book, Long, Homework

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• I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

  Katherine Applegate

  Thinking, Way, Impossible

  Katherine Applegate (2000). “Falling for Claire”, Avon Books

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• Everyone deserves a shot....and some deserve to be shot.

  Katherine Applegate

  Magic, Shots, Deserve

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• Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

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  Selfish, Passionate, Violent

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• With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.

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  Enough Time, Enough, Used

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hate, Eye, Faces

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• Old age is a powerful disguise.

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  Powerful, Age, Disguise

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• My favorite color is rainbow.

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  Color, Rainbow, My Favorite

  Katherine Applegate (2008). “Roscoe Riley Rules #1: Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs”, HarperCollins

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• Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

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  Stars, Eye, Moon

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• 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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  Growing Up, Mistake, Play

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• 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

  Hurt, Zoos, Rooms

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• 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

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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• I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.

  Katherine Applegate

  Facts, Sometimes, Telling The Truth

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• 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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  Beautiful, Rain, Justice

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• Anger only gets in the way.

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  Anger, Way

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• Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.

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  Smart, Looks, Sometimes

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• Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

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  Thinking, Guy, World

  Katherine Applegate (2004). “Ever World: books I & II”

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