Katherine Applegate

“Ax swiveled his stalk eyes toward me. ”

— Katherine Applegate

“Making others feel safe is a fine way to spend your days" -Red”

— Katherine Applegate

“Sticking your tongue in an electrical socket is dangerous- not to mention painful." -Marco”

— Katherine Applegate

“Humans. Rats have bigger hearts. Roaches have kinder souls. Flies have-”

— Katherine Applegate

“You know a guy is funny when a week later you can still feel the little knives he stuck in you.”

— Katherine Applegate

Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens

— Katherine Applegate

“She batted her eyelashes at me to show she was kidding. I love it when she does that.”

— Katherine Applegate

Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

— Katherine Applegate

“Hope is a thing made only for people, a scrap to hold onto in darkness and in light”

— Katherine Applegate

“It’s not so bad, I wanted to tell the little boy. With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.”

— Katherine Applegate

“I've fought for more than three years. I was just thirteen when I started. I'm sixteen now, though that fact, like so…

— Katherine Applegate

“Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people, after all. One minute you’re hugging us. The next minute you’re turning us into…

— Katherine Applegate

Anger is precious. A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warn his troops of danger. When my father beat his chest,…

— Katherine Applegate

“I remember something my mama used to say on dark days: If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk,…

— Katherine Applegate

Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that…

— Katherine Applegate

“Sometimes I know things before they happen. Sometimes I can see a scene in my head. Like watching a movie, and then…

— Katherine Applegate

“She spoke about her family she'd lost. She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. She had love to give,…

— Katherine Applegate

“Oh, the things I wanted to say to those two! I wanted to tell them that friendship doesn't have to be hard.…

— Katherine Applegate

“Jake, our fearless leader. On a crazed kamikaze mission. I’d never seen him like this. Even in our lowest moments, he’d always…

— Katherine Applegate

“So, there we were. The five of us - Marco, Tobias, Rachel, Cassie, and me. Five normal mallrats heading home. Sometimes I…

— Katherine Applegate

“We talked about talking. (We had been interrupting Ms. Diz a lot). She said that when someone is talking, you listen with…

— Katherine Applegate

“Toward the end of the shift, when the orders from the waitresses had slowed to a trickle and the cleaning up of…

— Katherine Applegate

“-and finally, to all of you who've come here tonight to celebrate children's books: every time you find the right, the necessary…

— Katherine Applegate

“All day, I watch humans scurry from store to store. They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of…

— Katherine Applegate

“But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most…

— Katherine Applegate

“I turned to him and kissed him, slowly lingeringly, my hands running over the hard, smooth curves and angles of his body.…

— Katherine Applegate

“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…

— Katherine Applegate

They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

“Don't worry dreams aren't real. They're just neurons firing randomly in your brain.”

— Katherine Applegate

“I also don’t understand why I should let some guy fondle me when I know the relationship has no future.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

“Maybe dreams aren't in your head. Maybe dreams are memories of another universe.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

“Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun?”

— Katherine Applegate

Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?

— Katherine Applegate

They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

“But even I have enough sense to know the words “we have to win” are the first four steps on the road…

— Katherine Applegate

“friendship doesn’t have to be hard. That sometimes we let the world make it hard.”

— Katherine Applegate