Quotes from James Patterson

after we cleared the tunnel at Treasure Island, a panicky

over to our house for Joe's sausage lasagna. A half hour later, Julie was in bed and two of my very favorite people were standing around the kitchen

You know that line from The Art of War, 'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer'? Well, only if your enemies aren't holding a knife, ready to plunge it in your back.

through his hair nervously. "It's simple, really. The more we ask technology to do for us, the more power we have to give it.

what's the best way to catch a fish?" Angel asked again. Oh. "I don't know?" I said warily. "Have someone throw it to you!" Angel laughed, I groaned, and, next to me, Total chuckled.

wait on line at

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Alcuni dicono che mezzanotte è l'ora più spaventosa per ritrovarsi in un cimitero. Si sbagliano. L'ora più terrificante è la prima luce dell'alba. Perché non c'è un posto dove nascondersi. Dal dolore. Da te stesso.

Tom McGinnis, or McGirth, as he was more casually known due to his not-so-girlish figure, was the department's chief of detectives, Miriam's boss and perhaps the most egregious power-hungry ballbuster in the NYPD.

walked away, Jeanne Galletta heard him mutter something like "calm down" under his breath. Typical. Male cops tended to respond one way to a man's

Like Oscar Wilde said, "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best," he thought.

We're on our way. I don't know.

Never Enough" from The Greatest Showman.

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He reminded me now, sharply, that one of my partners had been killed on the street and that only months ago, Jacobi and I had both been shot in a desolate alley in the Tenderloin. It was true. We'd both nearly died.

bottom drawer and pried up the drawer's false bottom. She held

NEW-AGENT TRAINING at the FBI Academy in Quantico, sometimes called "Club Fed," was turning out to be a challenging, arduous, and tense program. For the most part, I liked it, and I was making an effort to keep any skepticism down. But I had entered the Bureau with a reputation for catching pattern killers, and I

have thought so much could change in one summer? Not me, that's for sure. Not my best buddy, Leonardo the Silent. Probably not the folks at Airbrook Arts Community School either. That's where I was supposed to start seventh grade in the fall. Supposed to. You

At the age of six, I wanted to be a cook. At seven, I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

They shouldn't be in here daydreaming and thinking on their own!

We'll all go out together when we go Yes, we'll all go out together when we go Oh, how the world will die In great fire from the sky Yes, we'll all go out together when we go

The unmistakable hurt of a child ignored, a child discovering that justice didn't always play out in the real world.

You know," Melanie says, "most of the time things turn out well." "You're wrong. Most of the time things do not turn out well, and when they do, it's dangerous to expect that to last.

He's crazy like Leo, but real like me.