K. A. Applegate Quotes

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

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

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

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

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.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

Take no moment for granted.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

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

My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.

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

Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.

But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.

About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.

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.

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

Anger only gets in the way.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

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

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

I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away

I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.

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.

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

It's OAT-freaking-MEAL!

I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.

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

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

Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.

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

They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel

Everyone deserves a shot....and some deserve to be shot.

Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.