Quotes from James Patterson

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Love never dies.

But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works

Disney World?" Ari felt like his head was about to explode. "Disney World?" His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. "They're not on vacation! They're on the run! They're running for their lives! Death is following them like a bullet, and they're on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad?

Isn't it lucky?

And then I'm thinking - is it so impossible to imagine or believe? - that a man and a woman can find happiness together for a little while, which afterall, is all that we have. All anyone has.

Fear is not the answer, not ever.

Is it possible that you can love someone more than you love life itself, and yet you're still never going to know for sure everything he's thinking?

Behind every successful woman, there's a big prick.

That if I had to choose between dying tomorrow or spending the rest of my life without him, I would seriously consider picking imminent death.

Time to die. Angel said in her sweet little girl voice.

Sometimes all you have is instinct, a gut feeling. It's important to pay attention to them.

My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

Who but the devil lives like a king in the middle of hell

At that instant, I knew exactly what I wanted out of life: this. This feeling, this happiness, this embrace.

Like we were just jagged puzzle pieces that made no sense alone but together we fit perfectly. That's what life is supposed to be like for normal people right? You find that other piece that matches yours that completes yours. And you make the jags and the crevices fit, even if they don't go in perfectly smooth, even if they require a few adjustments. You don't demand perfection you make it work and appreciate the parts that fit instead of obsessing about the small angles that don't.

Do you want to know the closest thing to feeling the most powerful you can feel ? Flying alone at night.Risky.Nothing but you and the wind soaring way above everything , Slicing through the air like a Sword. Up and up until you feel like you can grab a star and hold it to your chest like a burning, Spiky thing

Is that clear? said Borcht as clear as pea soup I said

When my son, Jack, was four, I had to make a trip to Los Angeles. I asked him if he was going to miss me. 'Not so much,' Jack told me. 'You're not going to miss me?' I said. Jack shook his head, and he said, 'Love means you can never be apart.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

You must do today what nobody else will do, so tomorrow you can accomplish what others can't.

You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.

My eyes flickered when I heard the Voice inside my head. (You mean you don't have one? You can get 'em at Target.)

It was stupidly, infuriatingly impossible. No wonder I hadn't written anything decent in ages— I couldn't even figure out how to tell a boy that I loved him.