“About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“Today, tomorrow, sooner or later, you will meet someone who is lost, just as you yourself have been lost, and as you will be lost again someday. And when that happens, it is your duty to say "I've been lost, too. Let me help you find your way home.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“I remember something my mama
used to say on dark days:
If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can walk, you can dance.
Ganwar, I whisper,
what if she never comes?”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“I try to understand, but all I hear is a river of words, rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface. Now and then a word I know darts up like a sparkling fish, but then it’s all dark moving water again.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“Our stories don't make their homes in heavy books. We hold our stories in our songs.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“I hear the fear and hope fighting in my voice.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“The grocery store
has does and does
of 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 prayers
on every shelf.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“The grocery store
has rows and rows
of 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 prayers
on every shelf.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“His voice was deep,
like a storm coming,
but gentle,
like the rain ending.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“A hole can be as real and solid as a boulder or a tree.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“She is like a newborn sun, fresh with promise, the just beginning moments before the day fills like a bucket with good and bad, sweat and longing.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“Those are the stars that will guide my path home.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“Life changes, so you must hope.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“Kek finds sun when the sky is dark.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
Katherine Applegate
Born place: in Michigan, The United States
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“When she first died, I felt sorry about all the pills I'd given that made her feel so miserable. But now I didn't feel so many regrets. Lynn wanted her life. I thought she was willing to suffer if she could still taste her food, if she could still talk about the sea, if she could still feel a breeze across her face, and even if she still could argue with her crazy sister!”
― Cynthia Kadohata, quote from Kira-Kira
“You just wouldn’t be happy until I had to drag my ass up here to this godforsaken icebox that is. Gotta tell you I’m feelin’ some hate here my man. Or I would be if I could actually feel anything other than Arctic cold gnawing at my vitals.”
― Lara Adrian, quote from Shades of Midnight
“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from No Exit
“Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?”
― Pawan Mishra, quote from Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will
be with our treasure.”
― Brother Lawrence, quote from The Practice of the Presence of God
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