Top 100 James Patterson Quotes
#1. Life is supposed to have ups and downs. But for me, it's been more like ups and downs ... and downs ... and downs.
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#3. This story is going to be all about touchdowns and cheerleaders screaming my name.
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#4. They come in all shapes and sizes, all races and creeds and genders. That's the scariest thing of all
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#5. Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!)
Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn.
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#6. Suddenly the moment was there. All I had to do was grab it. What I'd dreamed about but hadn't dared believe could happen.
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#9. There comes a point in everybody's life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking you where you want to go, abruptly end.
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#10. But I'm the professor! This is my class! Show some respect!" "Okay,
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#11. If you're going to look back on
something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh
about it now.
Things are almost never as bad as they first seem.
Loosen up, girlfriend!
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#12. The next morning, Mom set two plates of scrambled eggs in front of me and Georgia and then sat down to watch us eat. She loves to watch us eat, which I totally don't get. I mean, she works at a diner. She watches people eat all day long.
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#13. I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak package.
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#14. Hey, Axi. What's the difference between a doctor and a lawyer?" I knew this joke - it was one of Robinson's standards. And I was only half-surprised he was trotting it out now. Playing along, I said, "I don't know. What?" "A lawyer will rob you; a doctor will rob you and kill you, too.
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#16. It's a baby plane," Angel whispered when we first got inside the dollhouse-like interior. "It's going to grow up to be a seven forty-seven someday.
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#17. Advice: Don't wait until someone you have issues with - especially someone you're related to - gets shot before you work it out.
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#18. Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?"
Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?
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#21. I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.
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#22. The strands fell through his fingers. "I have to go," he said softly.
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#23. Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.
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#24. She turned her head and looked at her gorgeous and in every way fantastic lover.
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#25. I mean, who cares about SpongeBob SquarePants? I'm sitting here with Wolverine!
-random kid talking to Ari
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#27. Maybe it's information the whitecoats never wanted anyone to figure out.' Fang said in the hollow Twilight Zone-y voice he used sometimes when things got unusually weird- as opposed to regular weird.
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#28. My father left when I was four and Georgia was two. That was about a year after Leo died. Once he was gone, we never heard from him again. End of story.
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#29. It's going to give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life.
Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do not to give a mwa ha ha!
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#30. Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.
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#31. For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.
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#32. Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open.
Have you been watching Oprah again?
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#33. Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.
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#35. Like, if you're gonna make a decision about me and my life for my own good without consulting me, I'd better be dying and unconscious, and you'd better be following carefully written instructions.
~Max
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#37. Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.
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#38. The door doesn't have a knob, just a latch held closed by a chain, another victim of Dede's shears.
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#40. Physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky, so they'll never know when one of their pals is flying.
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#42. De tall, dark vun
dere's nothing special about him at all," ter Borcht said dismissively of Fang, who hadn't moved since the doctor had come in.
Well, he's a snappy dresser," I offered. One side of Fang's mouth quirked.
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#43. What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog
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#44. You're a diabolical little pyro, aren't you?
He blushed modestly.
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#45. Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!
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#46. Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.
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#47. It was so cold outside that a lawyer would have his hands in his own pockets.
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#48. Old man. Varney was trying, but the judge looked as if he wanted to pace against the
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#49. This was a perfect storm of crap, all flying through the same fan, right at him.
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#50. He gave me a warm smile, and I blinked, realizing he was cute. I'd never really had
the luxury of noticing cuteness or lack thereof in guys. Mostly it was the lethal/nonlethal distinction that I went with
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#51. It was called Operation Coitus Interruptus, which only goes to prove that there are some people in the FBI with a sense of humor.
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#53. What do you talk about to a murderer, and someone you loved, over a perfect dinner and cocktails? I wanted to know so many things, but I couldn't ask any of the real-questions pounding in my head. Instead, we talked of the coming vacation days, a "plan" for the
here and now in the islands.
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#54. A man knows he's in love when he's totally happy just watching his girlfriend do even the simplest things - peeling an apple, combing her hair, fluffing up a bed pillow, laughing.
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#58. I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.
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#59. Your brothers have set off a stink bomb in the second-floor boys' lavatory,
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#61. Huh - Why is Max in the kitchen?"
Dr.Martinez: "We're cooking."
Gazzy: "She's just keeping you company, right?"
Dr.Martinez: "No, she's cooking."
Nudge: "Cooking ... food?"
Max: "Yes, I'm cooking food, and it's great, and you're going to eat it, you twerps!
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#62. Tears were dripping onto my dress, but I wasn't making any sound. There was no sound to express thid kind of pain.
I didn't want to move, didn't want to do anything. Fang was not waiting for me out in the living room. Tomorrow morning, when I woke up, Fang would still be gone.
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#63. For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story.
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#64. Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?
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#65. I didn't think he was a robot ... but I did wonder if his emotions had been designed out of him. Of course, with a guy, how could I tell? Ha ha!
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#66. Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'
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#67. Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.
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#68. I loved this woman. You can't just turn off that kind of feeling. But I loved a person who didn't exist. I loved someone Diana was pretending to be. Maybe the signs were there, but I refused to see them. Maybe I didn't want to see them.
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#69. I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.
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#70. What I said yesterday didn't mean anything! I love everyone in the flock! Plus, it was the Valium talking!"
"Uh-huh. You just keep telling yourself that. You looove me."
Max: (tries to punch him)
"Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it."
Max: (screams and runs into bathroom)
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#71. Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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#72. We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice smug faces (that I wanted to smash!).
-Fang's Blog
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#75. We are the sum of our thoughts. What you choose to dwell on will dictate your emotions.
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#76. I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.
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#77. Binoculars, adjusts the oxygen hose around his head again. It was just too damn strange, too damn out of the ordinary. No moving vans, no friends stopping by; neither the husband nor the wife - if they
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#78. I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, "How are you feeling today, Tandy?" and I responded "I'm not
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#80. 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.
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#81. And what he was truly all about. Thirteen years old. I was still slightly stunned by that. Could a thirteen-year-old
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#82. I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.
Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.
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#84. Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.
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#85. What was premeditated murder if not calculated leverage?
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#86. Whether or not he wanted me the same way I wanted him, we were in this together - that was what Robinson had said. It had never occurred to me before what a complicated word together was.
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#89. They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!
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#90. I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.
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#91. You were designed to be very smart, Max,' she told me. 'We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing.' (The director)
And yet I still can't program my DVD player,' I said. (Max)
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#92. Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.
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#95. I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.
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#96. Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.
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#97. I like watching your ... power," Dylan said. "You're a beautiful flyer. Your hair is streaming through the air like silk ribbon. The sun is shining on your feathers. And I'm just glad to be here, with you. Even if we are trying to stop mass destrucion.
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#98. I DIDN'T KNOW THE POOR MAN laid out in his birthday suit on Claire's table, only that his death might have been related to the Del Norte tragedy.
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#99. Angel is right,"said Dr. G-H quickly. "This is my clumsy way of demonstrating."
"Demonstrating what?" I was barely able to keep a snarl out of my voice. "How to get yourself beat up in one easy step?
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