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“Why wouldn't I be ready to have a hawk hand me a mouse? Just your normal kind of thing to deal with.”

Quote by K.A. Applegate

Book:The Visitor

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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.”

Inspirational Animorphs Marco

Book:The Proposal

Source: The Proposal

“People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.’ It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it.”

Author:Katherine Applegate

“Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. Humans. Altogether a contradictory and deeply flawed species. And yet...And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy. Perhaps the only hope.”

Book:The Sacrifice

Source: The Sacrifice

“I laughed. 'You almighty Andalites. There is no limit to your arrogance, is there? Well, let me tell you something: we may be simple people. But we don't use biology to invent monsters. And we don't enslave other species. And we don't unleash a plague of parasites on the galaxy, endangering every other free species, and then go swaggering around like the lords of the universe. No, we're too simple for that. We're too stupid to lie and manipulate. We're too stupid to be ruthless. We're too stupid to know how to build powerful weapons designed to annihilate our enemies. Until you came, Andalite, we were too stupid to know how to kill.' -Dak Hamee”

Animorphs Dak Hamee

Book:The Hork-Bajir Chronicles

Source: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles

“Love is pretty important. It's like wearing a suit of armor. It makes you strong.”

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Book:The Visitor

Source: The Visitor

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”

Life Change Risk Perseverance

Author:Helen Keller

“Just as the broken, abused child clung to hope for a better life against all odds, I now stand firm in hope and determination that one day justice will prevail.”

Hope Justice Determination Abuse Child

Book:Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

Source: Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

“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.”

Animorphs Rachel The Beginning Applegate

Author:Katherine Alice Applegate

“The monsters in our valley were destroyed that day. Only a very few survived. But that was all right, because we didn't need monsters anymore. We had become them.”

Monsters Animorphs Hork Bajir

Author:K.A. Applegate

“I was shaking and scared by the time I reached the office. It wasn't so much for me. I guess at some level I didn't care all that much if I lived or died right then. I just worried about blowing it somehow. For the others. For my friends. I guess it's true what they always say about combat soldiers. They may start out fighting for their country, but they end up fighting for the guy next to them in the foxhole. I didn't so much care about the fate of the human race at that moment. I wasn't human. I was a hawk. But I cared about Jake, and Cassie, and Marco, and Ax-man, and Rachel. Always Rachel.”

Love War Friendship Animorphs

Book:The Pretender

Source: The Pretender