James Patterson Quotes: 40

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

  Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

• Man, you weigh a freaking ton,"he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?" "Why, is your head missing some?"I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been

  The Angel Experiment

• Can I come in?No! I'm in a towel!I'm blind!

• They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One,"the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing."Okay,"said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat."He frowned."That can be his Indian name,"I suggested.

  Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

• I can talk to fish!"Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner,"Fang said, joining us.

  School's Out—Forever

• I feel like, like pudding,"Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.

  The Angel Experiment

• What happened to your tan?"--Fang"It was dirt."--Max

  The Final Warning

• The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

  The Angel Experiment

• Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?

  Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

• You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.

  Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

• How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?"Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

  School's Out—Forever

• Well, that's an evil smile...

  The Angel Experiment

• Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries."I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

  School's Out—Forever

• That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days.You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me than 'fair is fair.' Life isn't FAIR, Dean....Nothing is fair, EVER. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I need to help you because FAIR IS FAIR? Try, 'I need you to help me so I won't rip out your spine and beat you with it.' I MIGHT respond to that. MAYBE.

  School's Out—Forever

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

• I want to do it too!"(sitting motionless)Nudge: "Nope, you stand out like a fart in a church."Max: (muttering) "Appropriately enough."Iggy: "What about me?"(stands still)Max: "No, you're visible."Iggy: "Am not!"Max: (throws a pinecone at him) "Could I do that if I wouldn't see you?

  The Final Warning

• 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?

  Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

• Max, if you survive your final test, can you steal me one of those magic outfits for me?"I'll try to get one for each of us. Hey! 'If'?

  Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

• I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long."-Nudge

  The Angel Experiment

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

  Sundays at Tiffany's

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

• And you're blind?"Uh-huh,"Iggy said, trying to sound bored.Were you born that way?"No."How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it?"Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

  School's Out—Forever

• Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.

  Angel

• 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.

  Fang

• So the first thing we're gonna do,"I told him, "is push you off the roof.

  Fang

• They call me, The Sharkalator

• You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.

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

  Max

• 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.

  Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

• It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling "Ordering a pizza?"at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back "Yeah. You want pepperoni?"-Maximum Ride

  School's Out—Forever

• 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.)

  Angel

• Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.

• But what is life if you don't live it?

  Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

• Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

  Sundays at Tiffany's

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

• If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country.Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever

• Love means never having to be apart

  Sundays at Tiffany's

• Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?

• There's always be a me and you.

  Max: A Maximum Ride Novel

• 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.

  Angel