Katherine Applegate Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Beautiful, Rain, Justice

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• Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.

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  Smart, Looks, Sometimes

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• Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

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  Thinking, Guy, World

  Katherine Applegate (2004). “Ever World: books I & II”

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• Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens

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  Sometimes, Surprise, Unpredictable

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• They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Age

  "The One and Only Ivan".

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• What's love? Something that lasts a week or a month and that's all you can except? Or is it just that some loves have a short shelf life? You know, like yogurt: after a week or two they go bad. And how do you recognize the other kind of love, the kind that isn't like yogurt? The kind that's more like... I don't know, like peanut butter, that lasts forever and always tastes good?

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  Two, Forever, Peanut Butter

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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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  Mom, Regret, Stupid

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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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  Father, Order, Troops

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• It's OAT-freaking-MEAL!

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  Meals

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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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  Teenager, Wish, Idiot

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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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  Thinking, Intelligent, Want

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• It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

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  Naps, Dreamer, Gorillas

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• I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.

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  War, Winning, Two

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• But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.

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  Color, Shapes, Hunger

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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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  Wall, Glasses, Light

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Pain, Real

  Katherine Applegate (1995). “August Magic”, Simon Pulse

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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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  Sharks, Talking, Whales

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• And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.

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  Horse, Evil, Humanity

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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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  Mcdonalds, Earth, Next

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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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  Regret, Sadness, Mourning

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• Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

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  Mosquitoes, Earth, Mass

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• Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

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  Wish, Doe, Pretending

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• 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)

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  Hate, Jake, Four

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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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  Oatmeal, Storm, Battle

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• "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.

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  Giving, Liberty, Earth

  "The Alien" by Katherine Applegate, (p. 151), 1997.

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