Katherine Applegate > Quotes

“Droolius was barking, but he had a good reason. A stranger had just passed by. Barking is what we're supposed to do in that circumstance, right?
Maybe he's the UPS guy, maybe he's a serial killer. I mean, c'mon, we're not the FBI.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“You need someone, eventually they let you down and you end up feeling like a real doofus.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“You may have noticed that I am a gorilla. Western lowland, in case you’re curious. I’m the resident silverback here at Wildworld Zoological Park and Sanctuary. (Around here, we just call it “the park.”)”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Family

“Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

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

“Before Mack, before Bob, even before Ruby, I know that Stella is gone.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Stella”
― Katherine Applegate, Ivan & Friends 2-Book Collection: The One and Only Ivan and The One and Only Bob

“governing”
― Katherine Applegate, The Last

“That’s good.’

‘Is it? It hasn’t been that long since…’

‘Yeah, since the world fell apart. For us it hasn’t been that long, Jobs. For them, they’ve been gone five hundred years. That’s a lot of years.’

Jobs smiled ruefully. ‘I don’t know why I always found this funny but…my uncle used to say to me, “Jobs, have fun while you can because you’re dead a long time.”’

‘He was so right,’ Mo’Steel said.”
― Katherine Applegate, Mother, May I?

“I sometimes awaken with my fists clenched and my heart hammering.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Be proud. After long months, know you’ve done your best, that teaching and loving are different words for the same thing.”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder: The Novel

“he settled into a doughnut shape,”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“He raved silently. He hallucinated. He regained his sanity and lost it and regained it as the years passed, as the decades passed, as the very definition of madness became irrelevant”
― Katherine Applegate, Destination Unknown

“It didn’t make sense. My mom had three part-time jobs. My dad had two part-time jobs. You’d think that would add up to two whole actual jobs, but it didn’t seem to. My mom used to teach music at a middle school until they cut her job. Now she worked as a waitress at two restaurants and as a cashier at a drugstore. She wanted to get another job teaching music, but so far nothing had come up. After my dad had to quit construction work, he started a handyman business. He did small fix-it stuff, but sometimes he wasn’t feeling well and had to cancel appointments. He also gave private guitar lessons. And he was hoping to go to community college part-time to learn computer programming.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“I like facts. Always have.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“like he was facing a birthday cake with too many candles.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“I don't know, Tobble. Will you return to Bossyp? To be with other wobbyks?"
"I always thought I would." Tobble shrugged. "But it doesn't seem quite as important anymore. You know?"
"I do," I said softly. "I do know.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Only

“When the brush meets the damp paper, pink petals of color unfurl like morning flowers.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Gorillas get by just fine without learning how to spell. All those endless letters, those sticks and circles and zigzags, filling up books and magazines, billboards and candy wrappers. Words. Humans love their words.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan & Bob ebook collection

“In any case, Crenshaw had excellent timing. He came into my life just when I needed him to. It was a good time to have a friend, even if he was imaginary.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“For example, if you drop a mostly full bottle of ketchup in the tub, it will not float. But it will turn the water an awesome color. It”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“He had long ago learned to fire the neurons of another brain. He had long ago come to understand the architecture of the creased gray matter, the billion billion switches within, the ghosts of memory and ideas”
― Katherine Applegate, Destination Unknown

“stella Stella”
― Katherine Applegate, Ivan & Friends 2-Book Collection: The One and Only Ivan and The One and Only Bob

“It's dawn, and the dew-covered lawn sparkles like a giant green sugar cookie.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

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

“whirlpool.”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder: The Novel

“Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“My friends call me Red,”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“cement”
― Katherine Applegate, Ivan & Friends 2-Book Collection: The One and Only Ivan and The One and Only Bob

“You can have your dogs and cats,
your gerbils and hamsters
and sleek sparkling fish.
But you will have lived just half a life
if you never love a cow.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave