Kathi Appelt Quotes
They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.
Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.
Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.
Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.
Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.
Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
