Katherine Applegate > Quotes

“Dogs understand more than you might think. The nature channel says we're about as smart as the average human toddler. Two-year-olds, my fuzzy rump! We're a million times brainier than some babbling rug rat.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Mwezi,”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“-and finally, to all of you who've come here tonight to celebrate children's books: every time you find the right, the necessary book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled, hearts mended - you perform the best kind of magic. It doesn't matter if it's about a gorilla or a nuclear physicist, a puppeteer, a motherless girl, or a clueless fish. If it's the right book, you've allowed a child to make a leap our of her own life, with all its limitations and fears - and yes, sometimes sadness - into another, to imagine new possibilities for herself and for the world. Every time you book-talk a new title, every time you wander the stacks trying to find that elusive, well-thumbed series paperback, every time you give just the right book to just the right child, you're saying, "You, my friend, have potential." That is a gift. That is a miracle.”
― Katherine Applegate

“Grown-ups are just boring former children.”
― Katherine Applegate, Willodeen

“nincompoop.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“stubby”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“I loved my family. But I was also tired of my family. I was tired of being hungry. I was tired of sleeping in a box.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“Look,” Crenshaw said as he extracted his claws from my quilt, “I can’t go until I help you. I don’t make the rules.” “Then who does?” Crenshaw stared at me with eyes like green marbles. He put his two front paws on my shoulders. He smelled like soapsuds and catnip and the ocean at night. “You do, Jackson,” he said. “You make the rules.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“The older I get, the more miracles I seem to notice.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Family

“I think I may be a little tired of my domain.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Itu bukan cuma. Teman khayalan itu seperti buku. Kami diciptakan, dinikmati, dilipat dan dibuat kusut, lalu disimpan sampai dibutuhkan lagi.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“something”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“To a human, Mud might not sound like much. But to me, it was everything.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“imaginary friends never leave. He said they were on call. Just waiting, in case they were needed.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“She had a friend,” I say. “A friend who made a promise.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“às vezes acontecem coisas que não são tão boas. Nesses casos, já aprendi que não há muito a fazer além de seguir firme e forte, com os galhos erguidos e as raízes no chão.”
― Katherine Applegate, Árvore dos desejos

“That seems to be the common thread. As they say on the crime shows: motive and opportunity.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“migrate.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“muddy”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“well here is a good quote, "Why wouldn't they help me?”
― Katherine Applegate

“saloon,”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Ruby is a hit.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“remember when my little sister first came home. But I don’t remember trying to put her in a box so we could mail her back to the hospital. My”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“ Tobias asked.
I raised my hand to look at it. Fingers. Five of them.
"I don't know? Am I okay?”
― Katherine Applegate

“She makes a noise that sends the sawdust scattering. It makes my glass shiver.

It is the most beautiful mad I have ever heard.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Austin, meanwhile, began softly singing, "It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all . . ."
"If I go, will you stop singing that?" Summer asked.
"It's from one of my favourite rides, with these Children of the Damned animatronic puppets. At the end of the ride a tiny microchip with the lyrics is surgically implanted in your brain.”
― Katherine Applegate, Spring Break

“Tentacles whipped around him with inhuman speed. He cried out again. I heard the horrifying sound of bones crushing. And then I, too, screamed in horror, as Luca’s bloodied body dropped into the pit.”
― Katherine Applegate, The First

“I can't believe we are actually going to practice a morph," Marco said. "We never practice. We just do it, and when it's a huge disaster we try and deal with it then.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Capture

“little deflated. “Is my life more important than that of a struzzi?” Tobble asked. “Just because I am cute and cuddly?” We all fell silent, as the horses trotted along.”
― Katherine Applegate, The First

“It didn’t take long for my parents to find my name. All day long, every day, I made pictures. I drew on rocks and bark and my poor mother’s back.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan