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Quotes from James Patterson

There're no boys left is what you meant," she continued bitterly, cocking her head. "No Dylan. No Fang. No more cute guys to obsess over you." I pressed my lips together and stared at her. "What?" But Nudge was on a roll. "Poor, poor Max," she said, finding some ancient cans of tuna and an old jar of hearts of palm. Who eats that? "How are you going to survive with no one to fight over your attention?
~ James Patterson
Knowledge truly is power, it's everything; if you don't have any, pretend you do.
~ James Patterson
A guy who hates his job isn't going to be too charming at home.
~ James Patterson
We're headed for the South Pole!" Gazzy jumped over the low threshold into our room from the boys' room next door. "And it's, like, so far south that it's the bottom of the whole world.
~ James Patterson
when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life doing something, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
~ James Patterson
Three out of four voices inside my head say go for it.
~ James Patterson
What you mean is, he's a total asshat
~ James Patterson
amour fait les plus grandes douceurs et les plus sensibles infortunes de la vie.
~ James Patterson
Bad stuff does happen sometimes, always remember that but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky or the ocean and you move the hell on.
~ James Patterson
Oh, I guess I want to fall in love, to stay in love for a while. I want to feel real romance every day that I possibly can. I want to feel something special in my life. I want to experience intimacy with another person. I'm not that different from everyone else. Except that I act instead of daydream.
~ James Patterson
I put flower buds in a lot of little bottles around the house so I can see the blossoms open everywhere.
~ James Patterson
So let's not ruin this by thinking too much about tomorrow. Don't make a wonderful weekend into a bad Monday.
~ James Patterson
Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.
~ James Patterson
Little books can mean big things, baby books are things that you probably might not know.
~ James Patterson
It's better to care too much than too little. Every single time.
~ James Patterson
Yuki-eh, you must learn to be a lady. I don't think I ever quite learned to do that. I liked my music loud. My skirts short - I know, Mommy, even this one is too short! She wanted me to marry a lawyer - instead, I became one.
~ James Patterson
Better paranoid then sorry.
~ James Patterson
There," I said. "Decades of psycho logic picked apart in three seconds by an eleven-year-old. Take that, modern science!
~ James Patterson
Delusional. Like Donald Trump with a comb.
~ James Patterson
You aren't dead," she said. "No. You aren't dead either," said Iggy irritably. "How about just 'hello'?
~ James Patterson
My dear, there is no universal secret. There's only the secret each writer discovers for herself. The path forward
~ James Patterson
Fang is not the huggiest person in the world—he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which
~ James Patterson
I loved her so much, and) I can't begin to explain ho lucky it is to find someone you can love that much and who, miracle of miracles, loves you that much back.
~ James Patterson
It's always, always, always about the flock. I don't know how to do it any other way.
~ James Patterson