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If you're stuck you could always double up with me at my place. It's the size of a postage stamp, but the roses are the size of poodles. So it sort of evens out. -Austin -- Katherine Applegate
You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down. -- Katherine Applegate
She seemed beautiful to me. Is that strange? I suppose it is. But there is a compelling beauty in the sight of someone seemingly so small and yet so dangerous. -- Katherine Applegate
And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.
I tried to smile. For him. -- Katherine Applegate
But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors. -- Katherine Applegate
Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice. -- Katherine Applegate
Ax swiveled his stalk eyes toward me. -- Katherine Applegate
Interesting. Claws and teeth and ferocity mixed with the subtlety to manipulate creatures larger than itself. A worthy creature. -- Katherine Applegate
I felt the way you do the instant before you leap into the deep end of a pool. You're on your way to somewhere else. You're not there yet. But you know there's no turning back. -- Katherine Applegate
Love is alcohol. -- Katherine Applegate
You are the One and Only Ivan," he calls.
I nod, then turn toward my family, my life, my home.
"Mighty Silverback," I whisper. -- Katherine Applegate
Everyone has parents. It's unavoidable. -- Katherine Applegate
Humans have very odd tastes. They think their music is beautiful. They are wrong. It is awful. All of it. And they completely ignore their greatest accomplishments: the cinnamon bun, the Snickers bar, the hot pepper, and the refreshing beverage called vinegar. -- Katherine Applegate
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 hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!" (Jake) -- Katherine Applegate
Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered. -- Katherine Applegate
A famous human named Rolling Stones said that. -- Katherine Applegate
Fun fact, Jackson. You can't see sound waves, but you can hear music. -- Katherine Applegate
Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth. -- 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
Romance
Make eye contact.
Show your form.
Strut.
Grunt.
Throw a stick.
Grunt some more.
Make some moves.
Romance is hard work.
It looks easy on TV.
I'm not sure I will ever get the hang of it. -- Katherine Applegate
With enough time, you can get used to almost anything. -- Katherine Applegate
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
My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.
The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be. -- Katherine Applegate
I can feel him. He feels real. He smells like wet cat. He has fingers. Cats do not have fingers. -- Katherine Applegate
My visitors are often surprised when they see the TV Mack put in my domain. They seem to find it odd, the sight of a gorilla staring at tiny humans in a box. Sometimes I wonder, though: Isn't the way they stare at me, sitting in my tiny box, just as strange? -- Katherine Applegate
I try to understand, but all I hear is a river of words, rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface. Now and then a word I know darts up like a sparkling fish, but then it's all dark moving water again. -- 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
Ruby.
"She's here, Stella," I whisper "Ruby's safe. Just like I promised. -- Katherine Applegate
Today, tomorrow, sooner or later, you will meet someone who is lost, just as you yourself have been lost, and as you will be lost again someday. And when that happens, it is your duty to say I've been lost, too. Let me help you find your way home. -- Katherine Applegate
David, when it happens ... when it happens, David, will you save me? -- Katherine Applegate
And right then I knew, the way you know that it's going to rain long before the first drop splatters on your nose, that something was about to change. -- Katherine Applegate
She said she sometimes wondered if maybe bats are better human beings than human beings are. -- Katherine Applegate
It's an alien toilet!" -Cassie -- Katherine Applegate
When I'm drawing a picture, I feel ... quiet inside. -- Katherine Applegate
Imaginary friends are like books. We're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again. -- Katherine Applegate
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 don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends. -- Katherine Applegate
Meantime, I was going to enjoy the magic while I could. -- Katherine Applegate
Old age," she says, "is a wonderful disguise. -- Katherine Applegate
I like not knowing everything. It makes things more interesting. -- Katherine Applegate
I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away -- Katherine Applegate
For Marquez, the transition from standing around to dancing was instantaneous and total. It wasn't about looking cool, it was about losing all contact with the normal world, gong away to a place where her body and mind and the music were all the same thing. -- Katherine Applegate
Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into. -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill -- Katherine Applegate
Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart. -- Katherine Applegate
Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say. -- Katherine Applegate
Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove. -- Katherine Applegate
You're sunny. You keep showing up here." Diver
"I'm not sunny, I'm alcohol. No, no, I mean, I'm Summer," Summer says.
"Don't say that," the little boy said, suddenly frightened. "You're disturbing my wa. -- Katherine Applegate
Death's gruesome face taunts:
soulless eyes, crimson grimace.
I really hate clowns. -- Katherine Applegate
Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish. -- Katherine Applegate
Stella," I say after Julia and her father go home. "I can't sleep."
"Of course you can," she says. "You are the king of the sleepers."
"Shh," Bob says from his perch on my belly. "I'm dreaming about chili fries. -- Katherine Applegate
My conscience was going to give me trouble on this one.
That's the naggy little person who lives in your brain and makes you feel guilty about stuff.
Man, I hate that guy sometimes. -- 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 flawed species. And yet ... And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy. Perhaps the only hope. -- Katherine Applegate
Don't worry dreams aren't real. They're just neurons firing randomly in your brain. -- Katherine Applegate
I remember something my mama
used to say on dark days:
If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can walk, you can dance.
Ganwar, I whisper,
what if she never comes? -- 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 many facts, has been deliberately obscured in the secret accounts we've kept.
I'm a sixteen-year-old kid named Jake Berenson, and I am the leader of the Animorphs. -- Katherine Applegate
am talking to my imaginary friend. I invented him when I was seven. He is here in our bathtub. He has a bubble beard. -- Katherine Applegate
The zoo lady, whose name is Maya, is here again. -- Katherine Applegate
Are you with us?" Prince Jake asked. I said. "Don't call me 'Prince.'" I said again. -- 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
Cassie asked.
asked Ax -- Katherine Applegate
They think I'm too old to cause trouble.
Old age is a powerful disguise. -- Katherine Applegate
Anger is precious. A silverback uses his anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do.
Here in my domain, there is no one to protect. -- 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 victory. -- 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
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
About chocolate: This is what laughing tastes like. -- Katherine Applegate
I think that's his point," April said. "Not dumb, maybe. Just naive. I mean we come from a cynical age. Suspicious of everything. Maybe thats the advantage we have."
"Yeah our bad attitudes versus their swords and axes and giant wolves," Christopher said darkly. -- Katherine Applegate
I guess none of us will get through this without some terrible sin. This will be mine. -- Katherine Applegate
Now I draw every day ... If I get tired and need a break, I eat my crayons. -- Katherine Applegate
We can't change the past. But maybe we can figure out the future. -- Katherine Applegate
What's that?" Seth asked, pointing.
"That?"
"That room. Isn't that a head?"
"Uh, that's, uh, out of order."
"What's wrong with it? Maybe I can fix it later."
Never tell a former handyman anything is broken. Never, ever, ever. -- Katherine Applegate
Don't be so sure,' Cassie said. 'We're fighting for Mother Earth. She has some tricks up her sleeves.'
'Good grief,' Marco said. 'Let's all buy Birkenstocks and go hug some trees. -- Katherine Applegate
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do. -- Katherine Applegate
Okay," I said. "I'll be there, but I promise to complain the entire time. -- Katherine Applegate
Imagine being the only two free humans in all the world -- Katherine Applegate
What bothered me most, though, was that I couldn't fix anything. I couldn't control anything. It was like driving a bumper car without a steering wheel. I kept getting slammed, and I just had to sit there and hold on tight. -- Katherine Applegate
Seerow's kindness. Even then, all those years ago, i knew. My father's epitaph had just been written. -- Katherine Applegate
Pain is life. Life is pain. -- 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 and then it's back to reality. -- Katherine Applegate
(Are you okay?) Tobias asked.
I raised my hand to look at it. Fingers. Five of them.
"I don't know? Am I okay? -- Katherine Applegate
Tobias asked.
"Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on
the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into
dolphins ... You're suggesting that's weird? -- Katherine Applegate
Humans. Rats have bigger hearts. Roaches have kinder souls. Flies have- -- Katherine Applegate
Hope is a thing made only for people,
a scrap to hold onto
in darkness and in light -- Katherine Applegate
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers. -- Katherine Applegate
Sometimes I know things before they happen. Sometimes I can see a scene in my head. Like watching a movie, and then it will happen. I think, did I make it happen? Or did I just see it somehow? -- Katherine Applegate
Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur? -- Katherine Applegate
I said, mimicking the Disney World commercials. -- Katherine Applegate
I tried to tear my mind off my own self loathing.-David -- Katherine Applegate
She batted her eyelashes at me to show she was kidding.
I love it when she does that. -- Katherine Applegate
Christopher flushed, gaped, and then laughed. I gave him credit for that. Lots of guys can laugh at someone else. Chistopher could laugh at himself. You see a lot less of that. -- Katherine Applegate
They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth. Rachel -- Katherine Applegate
Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship. -- Katherine Applegate
Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars. -- Katherine Applegate
I can see my imaginary friend. I can hear him. I can talk to him. He is using a towel. -- Katherine Applegate
Everyone deserves a shot ... and some deserve to be shot. -- Katherine Applegate
And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity. -- Katherine Applegate
Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part. -- Katherine Applegate
Ax-man. Cardboard isn't one of the major food groups, remember?-Marco -- Katherine Applegate
Anger only gets in the way. -- Katherine Applegate
Old age is a powerful disguise. -- Katherine Applegate
I was an Andalite, all alone, far, far from home. Far from my own people. Except that sometimes your own people are not just the ones who look like you. Sometimes the people who are your own can be very different from you. -- Katherine Applegate
So he taped a sign on the bathroom door that said OFFICE OF MR. THOMAS WADE. My mom put a sign next to it that said I'D RATHER BE FISHING. -- Katherine Applegate
I am talking to a cat. A cat is talking to me. -- Katherine Applegate
I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts. -- Katherine Applegate
I soon learned that humans can screech even louder than monkeys. -- Katherine Applegate
Sticking your tongue in an electrical socket is dangerous- not to mention painful. -Marco -- Katherine Applegate
Salt! Salt! And grease! Greee-suh!"Ax -- Katherine Applegate
A good zoo is how humans make amends. -- Katherine Applegate
In dreams you lose normal cause and effect. You jump around in time. This is reality. Jalil -- Katherine Applegate
Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are. -- Katherine Applegate
Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy. -- Katherine Applegate
My favorite color is rainbow. -- Katherine Applegate
I have been in my domain for nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days. Alone. For -- Katherine Applegate
So, you propel rocks at me! You'll be very sorry you ever propelled a rock at me, human. -- Katherine Applegate
I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice. -- Katherine Applegate
The names are mine, but they're not me. -- Katherine Applegate
Oh, I'm sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing," Marco said. "Just tell them
we're Animorphs."
"Tell them we're what?" Rachel asked.
"Idiot teenagers with a death wish," Marco said.
"Animorphs." I tried the word out. It sounded okay. -- Katherine Applegate
But even I have enough sense to know the words "we have to win" are the first four steps on the road to hell. -- Katherine Applegate
Jake? Do me a favor. Don't ever say 'so far, so good'. The only time anyone ever says 'so far, so good' is right before everything blows up in his face!-Marco -- Katherine Applegate
It's OAT-freaking-MEAL! -- Katherine Applegate
Maybe dreams aren't in your head. Maybe dreams are memories of another universe. -- Katherine Applegate
Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. -- Katherine Applegate
It's never to late to be what you might have been -- Katherine Applegate
Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again. -- Katherine Applegate
I felt exalted.
It was my moment. This was my place and my
time and my own perfection.
I was no longer afraid. Weird. If I'd had a
mouth I'd have smiled.
I said.
No one moved.
I asked.
No answer.
I said, almost laughing. -- Katherine Applegate
The only person she knew at all was Marquez, and Marquez seemed to have been possessed by the music. -- Katherine Applegate
Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens -- Katherine Applegate
Old age," she says, "is a powerful disguise. -- Katherine Applegate