I felt exalted.
It was my moment. This was my place and my
time and my own perfection.
I was no longer afraid. Weird. If I'd had a
mouth I'd have smiled.
I said.
No one moved.
I asked.
No answer.
I said, almost laughing.

Katherine Applegate

Tag: animorphs rachel applegate the-beginning

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I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away

Katherine Applegate

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About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.

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But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid?
Gotta go with stupid.
It’s not the easy way out. Self-pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism, that’s tough.

Katherine Applegate

Tag: inspirational animorphs marco

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Hope is a thing made only for people,
a scrap to hold onto
in darkness and in light

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... You're sunny. You keep showing up here." Diver
"I'm not sunny, I'm alcohol. No, no, I mean, I'm Summer," Summer says.
"Don't say that," the little boy said, suddenly frightened. "You're disturbing my wa.

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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

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

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Tag: memories personal-identity

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David, when it happens... when it happens, David, will you save me?

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Tag: david everworld senna

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Lesson Number One in Everworld: There’s them, and there’s us. And any day we can keep them from destroying us, that’s a victory.

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Tag: everworld christopher-hitchcock

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