Quotes from Home of the Brave

“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

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