Quotes from James Patterson

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Exercise the right to think for yourself

love New York City from the Battery to the Bronx, but

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working

A vida é aquilo que acontece quando se está ocupado a fazer outros planos

Try not to become a person of success but rather try to become a person of value.

But being mentally ill wasn't like drowning, even if it sometimes felt like it. Because the thing about drowning is that someone else can save you, whether you want them to or not. And the thing about struggling with mental illness is that you have to be part of saving yourself.

The bestselling author of all time, James Patterson.

I'm pretty sure dodgeball was invented by some gym teacher who hated kids and just wanted an excuse to throw things at them.

A FLAT, still sandy, still meadowy region… a superb range of ocean beach—miles and miles of it. The bright sun, the sparkling waves, the foam, the view—a sail here and there in the distance. Walt Whitman had written that

FUNNYHURRICANEKID.

He got sick with meningitis when the boys were just three, and we lost him.

about Mom, and how stupid I was for doing this. Also, how glad I was that I didn't have to camp out in a dark, cold storage locker that night. (Seriously—what was I thinking?) And when Mom said she was coming first thing in the morning, she meant it. By six o'clock, Mrs. Galletta was waking me up and asking Mom if we wanted breakfast before we left.

IN A CONFERENCE ROOM on the twelfth floor of One Police Plaza, I met Detective Beth Peters face-to-face for the first time, by the coffee cups.

Nothing. My heart sank down into my stomach.

shoulders to the mat, and hold him there for a count of three!

There is no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

Snowflake, the Secret Service calls her. I don't know why they make their code names public, but they do. The president is Spider. That name kind of suits him. But Snowflake for the First Lady? Well, they have the temperature about right. I'd go with Icicle for a more accurate description....Libby Rose Francis's thing is stay in school. Hard to be against that, but seeing this bejeweled, silver-spoon elitist among inner-city dropouts is like watching Donald Trump milk a cow.

He's also possibly the funniest person I've ever met. He's even funnier than that sit-down/stand-up comedian kid I heard about, Jamie Grimm.

how much it was. She didn't want to

The bigger the lies he pretended to tell, the more truthful the stories became.

said that the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about.

Ruger in his waistband. Then he switched the .357 to his

to hug Toni Burgess and Sandy Wilson, the Devil Girlz we'd met in Taylor Creek, Oregon. Correction: former Devil Girlz. There was no sign of leather. Instead Toni was in a dress and had soccer-mom hair, and she said she was going back to teaching school. Sandy just looked sweet. More people were introduced: lawyers for both sides, and His Honor Marlon Sykes, a judge