Katherine Applegate Quotes

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

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

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

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.

About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.

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

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

Pain is life. Life is pain.

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

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

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.

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

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

My favorite color is rainbow.

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

Old age is a powerful disguise.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.

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

I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

Anger only gets in the way.