Katherine Applegate Quotes
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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.
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Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
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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.
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Everyone deserves a shot....and some deserve to be shot.
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Especially when you're faced with hard times, you need to remember that life is either tragedy or comedy. For me, that's what the magic is. Life has remarkable, surprising moments that get you through the hard times.
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Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.
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Anger is precious. A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warn his troops 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.
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About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.
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Pain is life. Life is pain.
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Anger only gets in the way.
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Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?
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Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.
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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 can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal
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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.
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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
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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.
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My favorite color is rainbow.
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Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.
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They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel
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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.
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I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.
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Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.
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I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.
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Old age is a powerful disguise.
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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?
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When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.
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I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.
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Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.
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Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.
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Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.
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