Quotes from James Patterson

But I'm the professor! This is my class! Show some respect!" "Okay

Remember when you changed me forever," I whispered in Maeve's ear.

Ms. D. through the front door and up to the main office, where the interview

Could happen. All I know is, if I was, like, riddled with cancer, I could be cured tomorrow. My parents would pay all the money in the world for the greatest doctors in the history of mankind, and snap, I'd be healed." She slipped her hand out of mine and slapped it against her forehead. "How come they can take out tumors, but they can't take out thoughts?

letting them know it's all right to do what they want. They don't have to resign themselves to some soul-destroying nine-to-five they hate.

science teacher. "The police had me in custody, an innocent man, a victim of circumstances, and because they had no evidence at

Mr. Randolph Davies. Though he had to be in his mid-seventies, the paunchy and white-bearded Davies looked Celia up and down as lustily as a college boy.

Common sense is always more important than money or even a decent education. The problem is that you can't teach common sense.

Her lover was, of all things, a Turkish physics professor at Mount Saint Mary College, a diminutive, balding man in his fifties who sounded and even looked sort of like the Count from Sesame Street. Even now, McDonald sometimes closed his eyes to see the Muppet laughing at him. "I slept with your wife one, two, three, four times. Ah-ha-hah!

it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better.

going. "'Your wife is ugly, and your daughter too. I think this play is stupid, so guess what? I'm out of here and you can kiss my—

most folks around here said, 'Good riddance.

Teamwork. It's what makes the world go 'round." "Actually," says Pierce, popping his head up over an astronomy book, "what makes Earth go 'round is conservation of angular momentum.

and almost overdosed on icy-cold cans of soda.

How come they can take out tumors, but they can't take out thoughts?" I didn't know what to say. It was a question that all of us had asked at one point or another. But no one had ever come up with an answer.

The minister is about to start." "I'm five minutes away. Trust me. You have got to stop the service!

HAC: Human-Animal Conflict.

You must have a theory," Bobby said. "Here it is. The killer has multiple personality disorder." Justine sighed. "And every one of his personalities is psychopathic.

ESU lieutenant Steve Reno has the tactical lead. Commander Will Matthews, our team commander, has the final word.

the Rockefeller

What?" says Kosgrov. "You think I won't lay you out just because you're stuck in a wheelchair, funny boy?" "Yeah," I say. "Pretty much." Turns out I'm pretty wrong.

Can you enjoy being on a psychiatric ward, caring for people living through the worst moments of their lives? Unless your empathy button's broken, he's not sure you can. You can love it, maybe, but you're not going to find it fun.

Not a good thing for a cop. The sun was still coming up over the

You said give him another night," Bree said. "We gave him one. He could be in there