Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew…

- Katherine Applegate

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

- Katherine Applegate

Pain is life. Life is pain.

- Katherine Applegate

About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.

- Katherine Applegate

Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.

- Katherine Applegate

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

- Katherine Applegate

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

- Katherine Applegate

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

- Katherine Applegate

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

- Katherine Applegate