James Patterson Quotes

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Oh great. Yoda captured us.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

They call me, The Sharkalator

Max-I'm not going to die today.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No.

Excuse me? I'm alive too.

you're a diabolical little pyro, aren't you? He blushed modestly.

I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day.

Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Home is wherever we all are together.

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours

Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

I never miss a good chance to shut up

It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.

And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II.

maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside

Assume nothing, question everything.

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

What are we but our stories?

Better readers are better thinkers.

A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.

I offered to pee on him, but they said no

Another day. Get up and face it.

He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. "You looove me," he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, "You love me this much.

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

The hamster called. He wants his home back.

So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max

You stand out like a fart in a church.

The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.