Quotes from James Patterson

I was thirty-eight at the time. As the saying goes, if I'd known I was going to live that long, I would have taken better care of myself.

How many of us share the stories of our lives with our own children? What a loss to the children if we don't.

If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate—jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. In

But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia

I was never a coward, he says irritably, struggling out of my grasp. I was just sensible.

Now, like all the other schools I've ever attended, the hallways of Long Beach Middle School are plastered with all sorts of NO BULLYING posters. There's only one problem: Bullies, it turns out, don't read too much. I guess reading really isn't a job requirement in the high-paying fields of name-calling, nose-punching, and atomic-wedgie-yanking.

This thing called Contrmporary America--and its obsession with televisions, game systems, and computers_has gone a littlr far if you ask me. Some call it the Information Age, but I'd tend to say it's more the Sitting-on-one's-butt-and-letting-other-people-do-the-thinking-for-you Age.

Ce n'est pas fini jusqu'a ce que je dis c'est fini, Rampling called out. It's not over until I say it's over.

But...if everyone was special, wouldn't that really mean that no one was special at all?

Assume nothing, question everything.

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

Your integrity, your dignity, your honor - they aren't for sale. Not ever. Not to anyone.

Never fight fair, that's not how you win. Expect pain, expect to get hurt. And if you're surprised by the pain, you just lost.

All genders?" whispered Nudge. "Aren't there just the two? Or did I miss something?" I shrugged. "No idea. Maybe they've created others." The thought was fairly repulsive, and we made "eew" faces at each other.

All teachers who were telling everyone where to go were wearing outfits made of aluminum foil , like robot aliens . 

It's a common enough psych term," I told him. "All of us shrinks talk about VFC when we get together. Very fucking crazy, Gerry.

There is truth in dreams, but especially in nightmares.

Purple is such a twisted, complex color—it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too—fiery desire, beaten and bruised but struggling onward, determined to overcome, to move forward rather than retreat.

If you wanted me to take a shower, you should have payed me ten bucks like you usually do!

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

He felt nervous and excited an happy and kind of filled with dread, all at the same time. It was the most emotion he'd never experienced...

if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners

To just lie there and feel vulnerable, and think about everything that had just happened between us, and wonder how it had changed things, and wonder when I had started to love him so much, so painfully, and feel how terrified I was and how elated, and how every cell of my body felt so alive. It was pretty much the worst thing that could ever happen to a girl. I highly recommend it.

You're your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don't need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.