K. A. Applegate Quotes

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What's love? Something that lasts a week or a month and that's all you can except? Or is it just that some loves have a short shelf life? You know, like yogurt: after a week or two they go bad. And how do you recognize the other kind of love, the kind that isn't like yogurt? The kind that's more like... I don't know, like peanut butter, that lasts forever and always tastes good?

K. A. Applegate
Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

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You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.

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Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

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They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth. Rachel

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

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Anger is precious. A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warn his troops of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do. Here in my domain there is no one to protect.

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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.

K. A. Applegate