Dakota Smith

“Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“People were... exhausting. They made her anxious. Leaving her apartment every morning was the turning over of a giant hourglass, the mental energy she’d stored up overnight eroding grain by grain. She refueled during the day by grabbing moments of solitude and sometimes felt her life was a long-distance swim between islands of silence.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan