155 Quotes by Katherine Applegate

The stories would lift me up,the words like a breeze beneathbutterfly wings,and take me far from the pain in my bellyand the tight knot of my heartI hope they will have stories at my school.If they don't know how,perhaps I can teach them.It isn't such a hard thing.All you must do is sayOnce there was...and let your hoping find the words.

I look at our facesand see all the colors of the earth---brown and pink and yellow and white and black---and yet we all are sitting at the same desks,wanting to learn the same things.

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.I too find it hard to believe there is a connection across time and space, linking me to a race of ill-mannered clowns.Chimps. There's no excuse for them.

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 are that and that is how it will always be.

I think maybe I'll likeliving here in America, I say to Ganwar.Yeah, that's what I thought, too.But you'll never really feel like an American,Ganwar says. You'll see.Why? I ask.Ganwar shrugs.Because they won't let you.Home of the Brave.

But you'll never really feel like an American,Ganwar says. You'll see.Why? I ask.Ganwar shrugs.Because they won't let you.

All you must do is say 'Once there was...' and let your hoping find the words.

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

The grocery storehas rows and rowsof color, of light,of easy hope.Hannah moves down the aisle,but I stand like a tree rooted firm, my eyes too full of this place,with its answers to prayerson every shelf.