Katherine Applegate

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

— Katherine Applegate

“Pleasure fades, gets old, gets thrown out with last year's fad. Fear, guilt, all that stuff stays fresh. Maybe that's why people…

— Katherine Applegate

“Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. Humans. Altogether a contradictory and deeply…

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“She got up and went to her tiny kitchen. On the way she turned on her radio. "You want something to eat?"…

— Katherine Applegate

A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam…

— Katherine Applegate

“In dreams you lose normal cause and effect. You jump around in time. This is reality. Jalil”

— Katherine Applegate

“It's an alien toilet!" -Cassie”

— Katherine Applegate

“Trees can’t tell jokes. But we can certainly tell stories. And if all you hear is the whisper of leaves, don’t worry.…

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

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

— 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

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

— Katherine Applegate

“Ax swiveled his stalk eyes toward me. ”

— Katherine Applegate

“I’d broken the rule because I wanted something. I wanted to matter. I wanted to do something meaningful before I died.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

What's love? Something that lasts a week or a month and that's all you can except? Or is it just that some…

— Katherine Applegate

“If you're stuck you could always double up with me at my place. It's the size of a postage stamp, but the…

— Katherine Applegate

“But I figured out after a while that I couldn't spend my life punishing everyone who deserved to be punished." "So you…

— Katherine Applegate

“Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled,…

— Katherine Applegate

“Rachel would be beautiful in the middle of mud slides and hailstorms. On a sweet, sunny day, she made my heart ache.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

Everything ends eventually. I guess that's what makes summer so intense, this feeling that it lasts for only a a short while…

— Katherine Applegate

“Romance Make eye contact. Show your form. Strut. Grunt. Throw a stick. Grunt some more. Make some moves. Romance is hard work.…

— Katherine Applegate