Quotes from James Patterson

It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided-- a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming.

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, How are you feeling today, Tandy? and I responded I'm not

And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II.

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

Max, you're acting like a child, the Voice said. You're above rebelling against your fate just to rebel. You've got a date with destiny. Don't be late. I brushed some hair out of my eyes. Is that a movie quote? Or is it an actual date? I don't remember destiny asking me. I never even gave destiny my phone number.

Do you want me to swear this time? Yes. Well, crap.

He was my light, my heart, my beautiful scalawag. And I was—I am—his GG.

It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.

On the other hand, sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

Every masterpiece comes at the end of a long line of failures.

Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

Once a bird kid, always a bird kid. - maximum ride series

So this is how happy feels, I thought. The energy, the automatic smile. This is what it's like to look forward to the day, to believe there could be good things coming.

Nope, you stick out like a fart in a church.

We all love each other, Ange, I said impatiently, hating this whole conversation. No, not like this, she went on relentlessly. Fang loves you.......My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? Forget it! No one's getting married! I hissed. Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you! Oh yeah, like I got any sleep after that. - pg 35

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

Advice: Don't wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you're related to — gets shot before you work it out.

People always talk about how great it is to get older. All I saw were more rules and more adults telling me what I could and couldn't do, in the name of what's good for me. Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.

Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.

I think about what I didn't say then, which is this: the stars we see aren't even real stars. We see the light that they gave off millions of years ago but that is only now reaching our eyes. We don't see a star as much as a memory.

This is not a democracy, I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. It's a Maxocracy.

Gazzy sniffed the air. That's explosives. It smells like Christmas! Okay, so we've had somewhat untraditional Christmases. With explosives.

Love takes chances, and I wanted to take a chance right now. For once in my life, I knew what I wanted.