Top 120 Katherine Applegate Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Salt! Salt! And grease! Greee-suh!”Ax.”

— Katherine Applegate

102. “Photosynthesize.”

— Katherine Applegate

103. “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

104. “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

105. “You are Bob, untamed and undaunted.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

107. “Each book is like a door waiting to be unlocked.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

109. “My point,” Bongo continued, “is that the world’s a tough place. Doesn’t matter if you’re a bunny or a lizard or a kid.”

— Katherine Applegate

110. “His mop moves across the empty food court like a giant brush, painting a picture no one will ever see.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

112. “Seems to me there are lots of ways to be brave, Bob,” he said.”

— Katherine Applegate

113. “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

114. “Human babies are an ugly lot.”

— Katherine Applegate

115. “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

116. “But my parents were optimists. They looked at half a glass of water and figured it was half full, not half empty. Not me. Scientists can’t afford to be optimists or pessimists. They just observe the world and see what is. They look at a glass of water and measure 3.75 ounces or whatever, and that’s the end of the discussion.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

118. “It’s surprising how much stuff adults don’t know.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

120. “I enjoy chewing pencils. I am sure I would excel at homework.”

— Katherine Applegate

121. “There’s always a logical explanation, I told myself. Always.”

— Katherine Applegate

122. “What gifts did the world give you today? What gifts did you give the world?”

— Katherine Applegate

123. “Maybe brave for a mouse is different from brave for me or brave for you.”

— Katherine Applegate

124. “Dogs are experts at odor. Students of stink. We analyze the air the way humans read poetry, searching for invisible truths.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

127. “The goal is to get as high as you can.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

129. “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

130. “I mean, I’m not an art guy. To me, art is a glop of spray cheese on a cheese dog with extra grated cheese on top.”

— Katherine Applegate

131. “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

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

— Katherine Applegate

133. “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

134. “There’s a difference,” Stella says gently, “between ‘can’t remember’ and ’won’t remember.”

— Katherine Applegate

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

— Katherine Applegate

136. “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

137. “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