Quotes from James Patterson

I like watching your...power, Dylan said. You're a beautiful flyer. Your hair is streaming through the air like silk ribbon. The sun is shining on your feathers. And I'm just glad to be here, with you. Even if we are trying to stop mass destrucion.

Like, if you're gonna make a decision about me and my life for my own good without consulting me, I'd better be dying and unconscious, and you'd better be following carefully written instructions. ~Max

That's because I'm a better person, frankly. I am a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings.

Okeydokey," I said to myself. "Provisions, check. Clothes, check. Enough explosives to pose a legitimate threat to multiple small countries-" I eyed the duffel bags that Gazzy and Iggy had packed- "check.

Failure isn't falling down, it's staying down.

People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.

We know," Nudge said apologetically. "It's just—she's going to make sweet potatoes with raisins and little marshmallows on top.

I think it was love at first sight for both of us; it just took us a little while to figure it out. That was understandable, considering we were being stuck with needles, shot through with radioactive particles, possibly poisoned by the horrific substances the hospital tried to pass off as food, and then, when we got discharged, running away and stealing cars together.

THE RIVER OF FOREVER is not the serene, clear-blue comfort that you'd hope to greet your soul after you've exhaled your last breath in the Overworld.

Never fight fair-- that's not how you win. Use every dirty trick you can, Expect pain. Expect to get hurt. If you're surprised by the pain, you just lost.

The pages turn themselves...

It's all right to put the weight of the world on your shoulders sometimes, if you know how to take it off.

I was speechless. Which is, as you know, very rare.

Don't you ever get a headache, with that halo hanging around your ears all the time

if you die, we die.

My parents were just carried out of the building in the service elevator, he shouted at the cops. They were vile, but they didn't deserve to be taken out with the trash!

She's about as sweet as a flaming turd.

Maybe they were. I don't know. Maybe they weren't. But they felt like the real thing, and the real thing wanted to make money off me.

You know the pop is coming, but damn if it don't always surprise you.

I can close the book on this part of our history. I can start a new chapter, but it doesn't matter. because now, the magic is everywhere.

Sometimes I look at you and I just can't believe you're mine

He was on the verge on insanity with one foot on a banana peel...

I will torture you for a human eternity, during which time you will beg me for death by an Opus 24/24, or an ax, or a thousand snakebites. I can see the future, Daniel, and I am looking forward to it, every excruciating second of your murder and dismembedment. Isn't that a wonderful English word, dis-member-ment?

He was the Teacher, the world was his students, and class was about to begin.