Katherine Applegate Quotes

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• I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away
• 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…
• About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.
• But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life…
• Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.
• 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…
• 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…
• It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
• Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.
• I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
• When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.
• I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.
• But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.
• Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?
• Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.
• Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.
• Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
• Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.
• They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel
• Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.

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