Quotes from James Patterson

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment. I know that sounds a little mysterious – but it's all I can say right now.

God gave us the acorns, but He doesn't crack them open for us." —Isaiah

unwound on a Sunday. "Would you like some

How could I desire him like this when I was so full of sorrow? And would he desire me enough to help take me away from here, even for a few stolen moments?

Remember when that huge, homeless, toothless man you brought in hugged you?" Maeve said with a hard laugh. "What did he say? 'You ain't like those other jive turkeys, man. You care.'" "No," I said, laughing with her now. "He said, 'Man, you're the nicest damn honky I ever met.

We have a plan.

By Friday, I could tell something was missing. Just breaking the rules by itself wasn't going to cut it. I needed something more. I needed a boost in my game.

In other words, it was the one place on earth where she was required by law to stay away from me.

It's in my nature to fight for the underdog.

We is so much better than I. If you need proof, just look at us.

He followed me as I

The sleep deprivation doesn't help. My eyes feel heavy these days, my movements lumbering, my brain fueled by adrenaline but unfocused, sloppy.

The thing about kids for some people—for me anyway—is that they complete your life, make some kind of sense out of it, even if they do drive you crazy sometimes. The pain is worth the gain.

Do you guys understand anything about best practices? I know you laugh at me because I follow procedures on everything, but those procedures were created for a reason.

It was like someone looking at a horrible battlefield wound and saying, "Let's put a Band-Aid on this thing, patch it right up!

Dreams don't have anything to do with wish fulfillment. They're more like—well, like your mind takes a giant dump every night, and the result is a bunch of weird, nonsensical stories that happen to you while you're sleeping

He wanted an heir, a tiny piece of immortality.

worked in New York my whole life—actually lived only about twenty blocks away—and had never even heard of this place, or the Freedom Tunnel, for that matter. This city never failed to surprise. Hamster got out of the car, his big eyes blinking through the tangled gray mop of his hair as he looked around. We listened to the cooing of pigeons nesting in the crevices of the raised roadbed above as we waited.

I mumbled, "Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it." Roddy said, "What's that?" "Henry David Thoreau." It was a quotation I used to live by, thanks to my philosophy degree.

Most of us tried to keep our problems as private as we could, guarding those scary parts of ourselves like they were a treasure instead of a curse.

jacket. And I found some of her shit in his closet

Even the jukebox plays nothing but oldies, mostly

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir. They'd sent for a translator, but nobody had shown up yet.

The door doesn't have a knob, just a latch held closed by a chain, another victim of Dede's shears.