My parents were more complicated. It’s hard to explain, especially since I know this sounds like a good thing, but they were always looking on the bright side. Even when things were bad – and they’d been bad a lot – they joked. They acted silly. They pretended everything was fine.

— Katherine Applegate

Katherine Applegate Quotes

Humans love it when we get silly. I think they’re so weighed down by people problems that sometimes they need to be reminded what happy looks like.

— Katherine Applegate

I felt like I’d taken off an itchy sweater on a cold day: relieved to be rid of it, but surprised by how chilly the air turned out to be.

— Katherine Applegate

Anger is precious. A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger.

— Katherine Applegate

What’s that expression?” asked my mom. “Fall down seven times, get up eight?

— Katherine Applegate

I used the sap from leaves. I used the juice from fruit. But mostly I used mud. And that is what they called me: Mud.

— Katherine Applegate

If I never talked about it, I felt like it couldn’t ever happen again.

— Katherine Applegate

Crenshaw and I didn’t chat much during those weeks on the road. There was always someone around to interrupt us. But that was okay. I knew he was there and that was enough. Sometimes that’s all you really need from a friend.

— Katherine Applegate

Facts are so much better than stories. You can’t see a story. You can’t hold it in your hand and measure it. You can’t hold a manatee in your hand either. But still. Stories are lies, when you get right down to it. And I don’t like being lied to. I’ve never been much into make-believe stuff. When I was a kid, I didn’t dress up like Batman or talk to stuffed animals or worry about monsters under my bed.

— Katherine Applegate

I don’t know why people talk to me, but they often do. Perhaps it’s because they think I can’t understand them. Or perhaps it’s because I can’t talk back.

— Katherine Applegate

Way I’ve always figured it, end of the day, you gotta be your own best friend. Look out for numero uno.

— Katherine Applegate

Why can’t you just be like other parents?” I demanded. I was crying hard. I gasped for breath. “Why does it have to be this way?

— Katherine Applegate

The ones we love,” says Aunt Akello, “live forever in our hearts.

— Katherine Applegate

Morning is like a gift you get to open every single day.

— Katherine Applegate

Humans love making unnecessary things. Then they love buying the unnecessary things. Then they love throwing away unnecessary things.

— Katherine Applegate

A first friend is a true gift, because forever after, your heart knows what’s possible.

— Katherine Applegate

What gifts did the world give you today? What gifts did you give the world?

— Katherine Applegate

Gently, because trees are like quiet friends and you have to be kind to them.

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Lucky for me, I also have two uncles. My uncle Ivan is a gorilla. My uncle Bob is a dog. Families can be complicated.

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But Uncle Bob says he is a service dog, because he is providing the service of being charming.

— Katherine Applegate

Fear can make you panic. But sometimes it floods your body like cobra venom and leaves you frozen.

— Katherine Applegate
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