Quotes from James Patterson

Fang, I said, my voice breaking. Just live, okay? Live and be okay. With no warning, I leaned down and kissed his mouth, just like that. Ow, he said, touching his split lip, then he and I stared at each other in shock.

Coimhead feara fhear na foighrde. (Beware the anger of a patient man)

The whole flock is helping to raise her, with Total insisting on French lessons and Nudge making sure she doesn't look like a cave girl (even though we pretty much live in caves). But it's only Fang who spends as much time with her as I do, Fang who patiently teaches the fascinating facts his photographic brain remembers from all those fat books I shunned in school. Fang, because he's her father.

Ari! Jeb had finally seen his son. He rushed to Ari's side and knelt next to him. Looking stunned, he gathered Ari's hulking form and held him to his chest. I'm so sorry. I saw his mouth shape the words, though I couldn't hear them. I'm so sorry. He bent over Ari's form, mindless of his vulnerable position.

I smiled, sipped deliciously at my drink, and made a new rule for myself: if life hands you a compliment, take it.

So, that went well, said Fang.

Well, if it isn't Daniel X himself, Seth said with a yawn. Become tired of living in this dump of a city already, eh? What can I do for you today? Death? Eternal enslavement? What's it going to be?

An emotional bond between two people can form in a fifth of a second.

Lots of women are gifting themselves with diamonds for their right hand.

I know where The List is-my father has taken me to see it many times. Maybe for just this reason. And I know what it is: The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma. And I know who I am: Daniel, son of Graff, son of Terfdon- The Alien Hunter. No last name, just Daniel X.

Think about it. When the end comes, will you be buried in the arms of the one you love? Of the one who knew you your whole life, who loved you your whole life? The only person who could really and truly love you like you needed to be loved? I hope so.

You're a brave, brave girl, Tula Gaby told her. I know, said the little girl. I got it from you.

Marty, my mother used to say Never get greedy with God. I think what she meant was Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need.

As soon as I left your place, I miss you.

Being a good leader is knowing when...to back off.

Beneath the handsome exterior beats a heart of darkness.

Life is a test. It's all a test. Sometimes you have to get through it, and then later everything makes more sense.

If you've ever loved someone like I did, if they made you crazy and happy and exasperated and elated and if you wanted to hold them and shake them and sometimes kick them and if, after all that, they were like part of your family and part of your soul… Imagine seeing that feather. Imagine what that felt like. It made it real.

Here's something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down 1-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car, you might get stopped.

I'm glad I'm feeling this way. I'm really glad. Dr. Keyes looked rather dismayed. Really, sweetheart? Yes. And I don't want to let it go. Not yet. I'm just starting to feel it. And it feels...I don't know. Right, I guess. Maybe even...good.

Murder can be made to look like suicide, and suicide can be made to look like murder.

Most people come together through sexual attraction and then try to figure out if they're compatible. The sex distracts them, then they realize too late that their pieces don't fit together

Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.

Irony sort of reaches up and slaps you in the face sometimes, doesn't it?