Quotes from James Patterson

ORANGE LAKE, NEW YORK SIXTY MILES NORTH OF NEW YORK CITY STARTING TO GASP AS she climbed the increasingly steep slope of the tangled hiking trail, Mary Catherine was about to take a breather when the tree line opened. Glancing out over the open ridge, she immediately halted in her tracks, as what was left of her breath was suddenly taken.

mother being taken from her deathbed, and

If a parent ignored, abandoned, or abused their child, an angry seed was planted that could grow into a poisonous tree. I knew that whether a parent was rich and snubbed their kid for expensive wine or they were poor and snubbed them for cheap crack, the message to the kid was the same: You're not as important to me as my next high.

IRAT, which, come to think of it, sounds like a rodent version of iTunes.

two atoms are walking along. One of them says, 'Oh, no, I think I lost an electron.' 'Are you sure?' says the other. 'Yes, I'm positive.

Ari shook Celeste playfully, and Angel stepped forward.

It was as if a boa constrictor had wrapped itself around my torso and was squeezing me into the shape of a meal.

on the carpet stood a new pair of Dr. Martens boots. Those, he guessed, would be his uniform for the duration of his employment with The Quarry Company.

Desperate times, ladies and gentlemen," I said. "Here's what I think we should do.

My partner, Inspector Richard Conklin

atoms change their charge from negative to positive when they lose an electron.

The look on Matthew Leroux's face when I left was terrible to behold. Having lost my own wife, Maeve, to cancer, I actually knew how it felt to helplessly watch a person you deeply love hover between life and death. How the inconsolable pain of it buries you to the point where the thought of your own death is actually a hope and a comfort.

We'll drink tea and ponder the vagaries of love, the secrets of life, the mysteries of the universe...

For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Out of every hundred men they send me, eighty are nothing but targets. The next ten shouldn't even be at the compound. Out of the remaining ten, nine are real fighters, and the last one will be a warrior. And we have to find the warrior because he'll be the one who brings the others back alive.

that she has whatever she needs in order to heal." She stood up. "You take care, Jack. God bless. I mean

my forehead and armpits are spritzing like a berserk watering can cursed by an angry garden gnome. I roll out to center stage and fiddle with the microphone

I won't lie to you. I can't say why God would take her now. But if the fact that she was sent here among us doesn't point toward a loving God, then I can't help you. If we bring away anything from today, it should be the lesson that Maeve herself showed with every full, spent day of her life. Hold back nothing. Leave nothing in the tank.

Amazing how beauty can be so fleeting.

Almost faster than my eyes could follow, Angel snatched Celeste and leaped back up into the tree.

Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter, he

Salte de mi oficina ahora! Puta!

Prove it," he said

It's just you, your homework, and the homework room. All. Day. Long. I turned thirteen in that room. Winter ended, and then spring came and went. Wars happened. Trees grew. Babies were born and people died.