Quotes by Katherine Applegate

“Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?”

“You needed love to win at the game of music...I played of sadness. I played of loneliness. Despair. Love found and lost. I played of tragic misunderstanding and weary cynicism and defeat. I played ...”

“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 kne...”

“Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun?”

“Anger only gets in the way.”

“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 yo...”

“Ax-man. Cardboard isnt one of the major food groups, remember?-Marco”

“Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.”

“Death's gruesome face taunts:soulless eyes, crimson grimace.I really hate clowns.”

“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.”

“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.”

“How has he moved so quickly from childlike navit to existential panic?”

“My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins.I know this is troubling...”

“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...”

“Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.”

“Love is alcohol.”

“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”

“Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco”

“How has he moved so quickly from childlike naïvité to existential panic?”