Wishtree Katherine Applegate Quotes

Different languages, different food, different customs. That's our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.

It is a great gift indeed to love who you are.

Making others feel safe is a fine way to spend your days.

But sometimes things happen that aren’t so good. When they occur, I’ve learned that there’s not much you can do except stand tall and reach deep.

Hollows are proof that something bad can become something good with enough time and care and hope" -Red

Besides, the more you listen, the more you learn.

There is beauty in stillness and grace in acceptance.

Days have a way of slipping past like raindrops in a river.

friendship doesn’t have to be hard. That sometimes we let the world make it hard.

Trees can’t tell jokes. But we can certainly tell stories. And if all you hear is the whisper of leaves, don’t worry. Most trees are introverts at heart.

But everyone needs to hope.

She spoke about her family she'd lost. She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. She had love to give, and no one to give it to.

Stay.

...I didn't want to miss a moment of what little life I had left. I wanted to drink in the stars. I wanted to feel the fuzzy wings of the owlets. I wanted to stretch my roots just a tiny bit farther before the night was through. I wanted to indulge in some quiet contemplation about life and love and what it all meant... "I've been thinking... There's no point in my worrying about tomorrow. It will come soon enough.

It is a great gift indeed to love who you are" -Red

Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people, after all. One minute you’re hugging us. The next minute you’re turning us into tables and tongue depressors.

I’d broken the rule because I wanted something. I wanted to matter. I wanted to do something meaningful before I died.

My point," Bongo continued, "is that the world's a tough place. Doesn't matter if you're a bunny or a lizard or a kid.

Making others feel safe is a fine way to spend your days" -Red

Oh, the things I wanted to say to those two! I wanted to tell them that friendship doesn't have to be hard. That sometimes we let the world make it hard." -Red

Hollows are proof that something bad can become something good with enough time and care and hope.

I'm not just a tree. I'm a home. A community. - Red

Photosynthesize.

nature is not always pretty or fair or kind. but sometimes surprises happen. and samar, every spring night, reminded me there is beauty in stillness and grace in acceptance. and that you’re never too old to be surprised.

But that's how it is when you love life. And I could accept that if my time had come, it had come. After a life as fine as mine, who was I to complain?

wondered, too, if I’d done enough for the world I loved.

A blessing and a burden it has been, all those wishes, all those years. But everyone needs to hope.

Time heals all wounds.

Nature is not always pretty or fair or kind. But sometimes surprises happen. And Samar, every spring night, reminded me there is beauty in stillness and grace and acceptance. And that you're never too old to be surprised" -Red

one percent of a fully grown tree is actually alive at any one time.

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We move in tiny bits, cell by cell, roots inching farther, buds nudged into the sunlight.

wouldn’t trade a single rootlet for any of it.

I wondered, too, if I’d done enough for the world I loved.

Here's an idea for you: ideas are a bad idea

Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people, after all. One minute you’re hugging us. The next minute you’re turning us into tables and tongue depressors

É uma tremenda dádiva amar quem você é.

It is a great gift indeed to love who you are -Red