James Patterson

“I'm glad I'm feeling this way. I'm really glad."Dr. Keyes looked rather dismayed. "Really, sweetheart?""Yes. And I don't want to let it go. Not yet. I'm just starting to feel it. And it feels...I don't know. Right, I guess. Maybe even...good.”

“Failure isn't falling down, it's staying down.”

“What happened to your tan.”

“We'll, that's an evil smile..." Like”

“I knew how good love could be -- I knew it was the best thing I'd ever done in my life -- and yet here I was alone. I was taking chances with my life. I kept telling everybody that I was all right, but I wasn't.”

“She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to.”

“What?" I said, suspicion starting to rise in me. "When did they start coming after you?""Was it— was it after the oil-slick Hummer crash?" the Gasman asked Iggy tentatively. My eyes widened. Oil-slick Hummer crash?Iggy rubbed his chin, thinking. "Or maybe it was more— after the bomb," the Gasman said in a low voice, looking down. "I think it was the bomb," Iggy agreed. "That definitely seemed to tick them off.”

“So you have your price. Your soul for a cookie.”

“I was never a coward," he says irritably, struggling out of my grasp. "I was just sensible.”

“So let's not ruin this by thinking too much about tomorrow. Don't make a wonderful weekend into a bad Monday.”

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

“He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.”

“The items on the counter in the shop had been pawned by a man who had used an American driving licence as his ID, issued in the state of New Mexico in the name Jack Bauer. He had received 16,430 kronor in total. “Is this some sort of fucking joke?” Jacob asked. “How the hell can someone get away with calling himself Jack Bauer? Jack Bauer! The TV show? Twenty-four?”

“I'm Dr. Ethan Kane, director of the Hauer Institute. My senior medical staff joins me in welcoming all of you to Maryland and to Liberty General Hospital. Think of it! You've been chosen to make an extraordinary journey with us. You'll be making medical history, making some very good money as well, and this will be the best experience you've ever had. I guarantee it!”

“My anxiety level was rising pretty fast now. Visits with the FBI can do that to you, I guess. I'd had bad experiences with them before. Ironically, so had Kit. They're good people, mostly, but something got screwed up along the way. I guess that's what happen when J. Edgar Hoover is your daddy. Talk about the road to perdition.”

“Do you want to know the closest thing to feeling the most powerful you can feel ? Flying alone at night.Risky.Nothing but you and the wind soaring way above everything , Slicing through the air like a Sword. Up and up until you feel like you can grab a star and hold it to your chest like a burning, Spiky thing”

“Oh, I guess I want to fall in love, to stay in love for a while. I want to feel real romance every day that I possibly can. I want to feel something special in my life. I want to experience intimacy with another person. I'm not that different from everyone else. Except that I act instead of daydream.”

“There's no such thing as justice in America. It's all a fairy tale.”

“Disney World?” Ari felt like his head was about to explode. “Disney World?” His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. “They’re not on vacation! They’re on the run! They’re running for their lives! Death is following them like a bullet, and they’re on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad?”

“Then right before my eyes, she flew. She actually flew like a bird. No, she flew as a young girl might fly, or a woman or a man, if people were meant to fly. She soared through the air. And that changed the course of my life forever.”

“He was on the verge on insanity with one foot on a banana peel...”

“if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners”

“All teachers who were telling everyone where to go were wearing outfits made of aluminum foil , like robot aliens . ”

“There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.”

“Sometimes all you have is instinct, a gut feeling. It's important to pay attention to them.”

“NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream.Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.”

“The cell phone in my pocket went off. Shit! Damn it! Why do I carry these infernal gadgets? Why does anybody in their right mind need to constantly be on call?”

“A vida é aquilo que acontece quando se está ocupado a fazer outros planos”

“Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.”

“Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.”

“Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.”

“Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain.It's yours. It's all yours for taking!You're not going to waste it now, are you?”

“I love you Max,"Fang said..."God, Max I love you so much."I know. I thought. I've always known”

“This was a perfect storm of crap, all flying through the same fan, right at him.”

“It is my time. The time of maximum ride...”

“That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!”

“You string people along long enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus”

“You string people along enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus”

“Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot.'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.”

“Yes, I sounded like a pathetic weenie. I prefer to think of it as showing my softer side.”

“The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option”

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

“All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two'I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others.”

“Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?”

“When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn't want to hear from it, it got chatty. It was alost as irritating as Fang.”

“I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.”

“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.”

“But...if everyone was special, wouldn't that really mean that no one was special at all?”

“Fang? Are you- like Max?" asked Dr. Martinez. "Nope,"he said, sounding bored. "I'm the smart one." I resisted the urge to kick him in the shin.”

“But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia”