James Patterson Quotes

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.

I flipped down the visor so I could check myself in the mirror, and something small and heavy dropped into my lap.I froze, my breath stuck in my throat. What—?Gingerly, I looked down. It wasn’t a gren...

I decided that every rule in the Hills Village Middle School Code of Conduct should be worth a certain number of points, depending on how hard it was to break. Of course, this meant I could get into s...

I can see why you, sir, are the champ. You bully without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, or physical abilities. You are an equal-opportunity tormentor.

Excerpt from Alert copyright © James Patterson, 2015

A half-dozen or so FBI techies and LAPD homicide detectives were still on the scene. The latest Pearl Jam played from somebody’s radio. The lead singer seemed to be in terrible pain.

It wasn’t because the lions were particularly hungry. The humans had been nothing compared to the eighteen-hundred-pound Cape buffalo, the pride’s more typical prey. The cars had been like boxes full...

It was the building from the drawing in my brain.And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

If this was what life was like without words - a life of doing, not just talking - I just might be willing to give them up forever.

Around three that Sunday afternoon, in the community of Arbutus, a suburb of Baltimore, Tess Aaliyah parked on Francis Street

He landed 10 feet below with a sickening crunch-i'm guessing his enhancements didn't allow him to bounce back up like a ball. we call that a design flaw.

Have faith and pursue the unknown end. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that. I have faith. I pursue the unknown. That’s my job description.

In an instant, cold sweat coated my forehead and the back of my neck. I swallowed, and the Eraser Max in the mirror swallowed. I opened my mouth and saw the long, sharp canines. But when I touched the...

Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

Gazzy, man, jeezum! Fang exclaimed. What the heck have you been eating for God's sake?That was a smoke bomb! Gazzy defended himself. Not even i could fill this whole flippin' house!

In case you were wondering, Jacobi said, you snore. Purr, I corrected. I purr.

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 d...

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

Father Alfred D’Souza. D’Souza had written: For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first...

It was Katie Kim.