52 Quotes by K. A. Applegate

I have a more important question," Rachel said. "How do we know when we're there? You know, our destination."Jake made a "who knows?" face. "I figure this ship is going like, what, twenty miles per hour? Figure an hour, and that puts us twenty miles out, right?"Rachel pointed a finger at her forehead and said, "Jake's a total mathematical genius. One hour at twenty miles per hour. Right away he figures out that's twenty miles."-Animorphs #4, The Visitor page 51

"What?" I didn't see what he was pointing at."You have a word for something like that?" I asked?-Animorphs #4, The Visitor page 63

Marco? Are you with us?" I asked."Oh sure. Where else would I be? What could possibly be more fun than running around the sand dunes getting shot at and then jumping into the ocean and turning in to a trout, who, incidentally, can't live in saltwater? I wouldn't miss it or anything."-Animorphs #4, The Visitor page 21

Tobias said. I nodded and wiped away my tears. "Yeah," I said. "Until then, we fight.

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.