James Patterson

“Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need." ”

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

“Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.”

“You're a brave, brave girl, Tula" Gaby told her."I know", said the little girl. "I got it from you.”

“I love you more than I love goats, and you know how I feel about goats", Gaby said.”

“stand for something or fall for nothing, if you are neutral you'll be pushed anywhere.”

“Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.”

“I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together,”

“I never miss a good chance to shut up”

“I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years.Right up until someone kicked me and said "Gotcha!”

“Time to die.-Evil Angel”

“You're a fridge with wings. We're freaking ballet dancers! -Fang”

“Thank you for inviting me here today " I said my voice sounding nothing like me. "I'm here to testify about things I've seen and experienced myself. I'm here because the human race has become more powerful than ever. We've gone to the moon. Our crops resist diseases and pests. We can stop and restart a human heart. And we've harvested vast amounts of energy for everything from night-lights to enormous super-jets. We've even created new kinds of people, like me."But everything mankind" - I frowned - "personkind has accomplished has had a price. One that we're all gonna have to pay." I heard coughing and shifting in the audience. I looked down at my notes and all the little black words blurred together on the page. I just could not get through this. I put the speech down picked up the microphone and came out from behind the podium. "Look " I said. "There's a lot of official stuff I could quote and put up on the screen with PowerPoint. But what you need to know what the world needs to know is that we're really destroying the earth in a bigger and more catastrophic was than anyone has ever imagined."I mean I've seen a lot of the world the only world we have. There are so many awesome beautiful tings in it. Waterfalls and mountains thermal pools surrounded by sand like white sugar. Field and field of wildflowers. Places where the ocean crashes up against a mountainside like it's done for hundreds of thousands of years. "I've also seen concrete cities with hardly any green. And rivers whose pretty rainbow surfaces came from an oil leak upstream. Animals are becoming extinct right now in my lifetime. Just recently I went through one of the worst hurricanes ever recorded. It was a whole lot worse because of huge worldwide climatic changes caused by... us. We the people." .... "A more perfect union While huge corporations do whatever they want to whoever they want and other people live in subway tunnels Where's the justice of that Kids right here in America go to be hungry every night while other people get four-hundred-dollar haircuts. Promote the general welfare Where's the General welfare in strip-mining toxic pesticides industrial solvents being dumped into rivers killing everything Domestic Tranquility Ever sleep in a forest that's being clear-cut You'd be hearing chain saws in your head for weeks. The blessings of liberty Yes. I'm using one of the blessings of liberty right now my freedom of speech to tell you guys who make the laws that the very ground you stand on the house you live in the children you tuck in at night are all in immediate catastrophic danger.”

“The eraser”

“Who but the devil lives like a king in the middle of hell”

“THE RIVER OF FOREVER is not the serene, clear-blue comfort that you'd hope to greet your soul after you've exhaled your last breath in the Overworld.”

“Here's a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass.”“I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.”

“If you wanted me to take a shower, you should have payed me ten bucks like you usually do!”

“living life was like puttingthe beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in;it was to attend to the most important things first—thebig, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people andexperiences—and fit the lesser things in around them.Otherwise, the best things might get left out”

“If you’re going to look back onsomething and laugh about it, you might as well laughabout it now.Things are almost never as bad as they first seem.Loosen up, girlfriend!”

“We want Max to... breed. To produce heirs. Who will govern the world after she dies."Dead silence for quite some time. We all stared at Dr. Hans, our jaws dropped to various levels. Our lives had reached a new low of inhumanity.My face flushed. Part of me had assumed, hoped, that if Fang and I lived long enough, we would get married. Maybe have a little flock of our own. But i really hadn't planned it all out. And he was gone now, anyway. How could I possibly ever find someone...My eyes scanned Dylan's face, I saw his discomfort."Oh, no," I said in horror."Yes," Angel confirmed. "Freaking unbelievable.”

“In a manner of speaking. As we intend for you to found a dynasty. And that dynasty will rule society until it has progressed enough to-""Overthrow the dynasty in a revolutionary, blood filled coup!" Iggy said eagerly.We all looked at him."Just saying." He sheepishly took a bite of cookie.”

“Is that clear?" said Borcht "as clear as pea soup" I said”

“They get me, and I get them. They have empathy. Most people don't, they really don't.”

“Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.”

“I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do.”

“You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky,or the ocean and you move the hell on.”

“Bad stuff happens.Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair.Sometimes, it just plain sucks.Bad stuff happens sometimes.Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.”

“To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life.We is so much better than I.”

“It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided-- a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming.”

“We is always so much better than I.”

“When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.”

“Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.”

“Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.”

“Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.”

“Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like " I am Starfishhh!”

“Plus, if I can wax philosophical for a paragraph, there's an even more fundamental principle involved here, and it apples to everything from what you decide to do for a living, to making an omelette, which is that there is nothing so consistently dangerous, not to mention more likely to mess with your head and leave you muttering into your beer, than playing it safe.”

“I, Alex Cross do solemnly promise-to all those present at this birthday party- to do my best to balance my life at home with my work,life,and not to go over to the dark side ever again.”

“What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and world destruction?”

“You know, when you’re right,that’s all you get to be.”

“If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.”

“Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.”

“Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.”

“Because now, the magic is everywhere.”

“Once a bird kid, always a bird kid. - maximum ride series”

“This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.”

“Oh great. Yoda captured us.”

“Isn't it lucky?”

“I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers couldhave turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer”

“Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It'sa Maxocracy.”