Quotes from James Patterson

YOU JUST PICKED THE WRONG INMATE TO MESS WITH!" Legend said. "I'M TALKING TO YOU, DOOLIN. YOU HEAR ME? BAD CHOICE… VERY BAD CHOICE!

What would it mean to murder the only person in the world whom you loved?

Never let them see your first reaction. Don't let them know what you think until you want them to know what you think.

It was a disturbing parallel.

And instead of getting all gushy and apologizing for being politically incorrect, Jacky Hart just laughs.

He went ballistic and started chasing me all over the house until I locked myself in the bathroom and Mom told him to calm down or she was going to call the police back herself.

bourbon with a splash of ginger ale, a shot of maple syrup, then club soda

Emergency Service panel trucks, holding rifles and black telescope-like Geiger counters. He was supposed to get by them?

The sex... it was age appropriately fantastic.

here, they looked as lifelike as any you'd find at Madame Tussauds wax museum. Even weirder: intermingled with the police was an assortment of what I'd technically define as thugs

Rules made you predictable, less of an individual. Rules made you less free, less authentic, less yourself. And in the end, rules could get you caught.

Today at the hotel, Benji farted in the elevator. It was wrong on so many levels.

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing,'" I quoted. "Socrates." Mary Catherine said, "You were already proving your point. You didn't have to back it up with a quote.

some straight and some gay, all of whom

You can't bargain with God, Alex. You can state your good intentions, you can imagine the life you want, but you can't negotiate with Him. He holds all the cards.

Unless it's a lie!" I blurted. "You tell 'em, Bick!" yelled Beck. "I just did!" "I know. I heard you." "Cool.

Anyway, I guess I should have seen it coming. It's like every time things start to look okay in my crazy life, something always comes along to change it. It's like it just falls out of

Once we were inside, I went straight for Doolin's bunk. I pulled open his sleeping bag, stuck my hand in that jar of peanut butter, and started spreading it around like I was making the world's biggest sandwich. Norman was right behind with the honey. "Rafe, this isn't right," he said. "Sure it is," I said. "The peanut butter always goes first.

Monday morning and that she'd taken off with the baby in retaliation. "Oh, and he said she's off her meds.

Education is about the distribution of knowledge... and to whom we actually distribute this particular commodity is a major question in this country.

And now the fear and fascination with this peripatetic shooting gallery had galvanized the country.

You've caused a lot of damage here

in her eyes was something I'll remember the rest of my life.