Quotes from James Patterson

You put on a mask. But don't you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes

That's right: Never underestimate the power of a good laugh. It can stop some of the fiercest middle-school monsters.

The doors of every house have a unique sound when they open and close.

I called for back up," Nudge said. "The police, fire department, paramedics, and a few different pizza delivery places are all on their way.

Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.

Basically, if you put a fence around New York City, you'd have the world's biggest nontraveling circus.

I knew how good love could be -- I knew it was the best thing I'd ever done in my life -- and yet here I was alone. I was taking chances with my life. I kept telling everybody that I was all right, but I wasn't.

If I never had another thing, Id have everything.

Now, don't get all weepy on me dear reader.No chin-quivering or nose-sniveling, either. These pages do not need to be all soggy with your mucus.

Maybe you'll learn something about life beyond Batman.

Michelangelo didn't show David triumphant, the way every other sculptor did. He showed David before he fought Goliath—when David believed he was doomed and went into battle anyway.

Happiness is seeing Bear Bluff in your rearview mirror, but you better look damn quick.

When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station

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

I'm not going to do anything," he insisted. "I would never do anything—I'm just not good at keeping what I feel to myself, Lindsay. I know you're with Joe. I get it. I just want you to know that I've got this arrow through my heart. And I would do anything for you." "Rich

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

Across from the famous jewelry store on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-Seventh Street, we sat in the back of a graffiti-covered white box truck watching the world go by on the surveillance vehicle's hidden high-def camera. So far there had been no sign of the thieves. Or even Audrey Hepburn.

I guess when you're a drama teacher, you're used to memorizing long speeches.

Be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.

I know you might not believe this, but slogging through a foreign European forest in the dead of night with an ex-Eraser, a talking dog, and two kids who depend on you for their lives—well, not as much fun as you'd think. But

You… are… a… fridge… with… wings," Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. "We… are… ballet… dancers.

Have you ever done something extremely stupid like, oh, I don't know, try to make a room filled with total strangers laugh until their sides hurt? Totally

What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.

I'm a patriot with every fiber of my being. A patriot does what is best for his country, not what is best for its leader.