155 Quotes by Katherine Applegate

I’ve never asked for a promise before, because promises are forever, and forever is an unusually long time.

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

I think I’ve always been an artist. Even as a baby, still clinging to my mother, I had an artist’s eye. I saw shapes in the clouds, and sculptures in the tumbled stones at the bottom of a stream. I grabbed at colors – the crimson flower just out of reach, the ebony bird streaking past.

She said she sometimes wondered if maybe bats are better human beings than human beings are.

Oh, the things I wanted to say to those two! I wanted to tell them that friendship doesn’t have to be hard. That sometimes we let the world make it hard.” -Red.

Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.

Stella is a mountain. Next to her I am a rock, and Bob is a grain of sand.

Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people, after all. One minute you’re hugging us. The next minute you’re turning us into tables and tongue depressors.

Okay,” I said. “I’ll be there, but I promise to complain the entire time.