Top 500 James Patterson Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The world was becoming a zoo, without cages.”

— James Patterson

152. “If life were a movie, we’d have had what they call a “meet cute”.”

— James Patterson

153. “I mean, who cares about SpongeBob SquarePants? I’m sitting here with Wolverine! -random kid talking to Ari.”

— James Patterson

154. “You know, I guess I just don’t like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?”

— James Patterson

155. “It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.”

— James Patterson

156. “You have to respect your enemy. Never, ever underestimate them. The second you do, they’ll squash you. Be smart about them. Respect their abilities, even if they don’t respect yours.”

— James Patterson

157. “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?”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

159. “The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school. Most of the similarities end there. Max and the other kids in Maximum Ride are not the same Max and kids featured in those two books. nor do Frannie and Kit play any part in Maximum Ride. I hope you enjoy the ride anyways.”

— James Patterson

160. “What I’m really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren’t competent readers coming out of middle school, it’s really going to be hard for them in high school.”

— James Patterson

161. “So this is how “happy” feels, I thought. The energy, the automatic smile. This is what it’s like to look forward to the day, to believe there could be good things coming.”

— James Patterson

162. “Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that’s a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I’d say has served my books well.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

164. “I don’t believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy. Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman.”

— James Patterson

165. “You’re your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don’t need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.”

— James Patterson

166. “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.”

— James Patterson

167. “A classroom. People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.”

— James Patterson

168. “I looked into her eyes. “Mom, who do you pray to?” I just pray, Daniel. That’s all.”

— James Patterson

169. “Is it important to be right or is it important to do what’s right? That’s one of the hardest lessons to learn.”

— James Patterson

170. “We’re just not cut out for all this media circus crap. But then, you already knew that.”

— James Patterson

171. “Remembering pain is how you learn never to let the cause of it happen again.”

— James Patterson

172. “The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.”

— James Patterson

173. “A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.”

— James Patterson

174. “Fnick -Iggy.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

176. “I like that old country song? A good-hearted woman in love with a good-timing man?”

— James Patterson

177. “Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.”

— James Patterson

178. “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.”

— James Patterson

179. “I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.”

— James Patterson

180. “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” – A. Sachs.”

— James Patterson

181. “Every day from the crack of dawn,” he said- and i completed the rest, “until we can’t keep our eyes open one second longer.”

— James Patterson

182. “We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.”

— James Patterson

183. “WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment. I know that sounds a little mysterious – but it’s all I can say right now.”

— James Patterson

184. “I won’t lie to you – it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.”

— James Patterson

185. “Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.”

— James Patterson

186. “People underestimating me is my secret weapon.”

— James Patterson

187. “Iggy: “I’ll grab a zebra; Gaz, you fill all the bubbles with your trademark scent. so people are choking and gagging; and let’s throw beef jerky in their eyes! Now, that’s a plan!”

— James Patterson

188. “Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.”

— James Patterson

189. “Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things – don’t leave your socks lying around – but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.”

— James Patterson

190. “If you’re in the room, I want to be next to you. If you’re gone, I think about you. You’re who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we’re together the sun is shining. When we’re apart, everything is in shades of gray.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

192. “I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.”

— James Patterson

193. “Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn’t help myself.”

— James Patterson

194. “Three out of four voices inside my head say go for it.”

— James Patterson

195. “Which means what?” I demanded. “That I’m nothing? That I’m not a person? That you can do anything you want to me and it’s okay? You’re so full of it! But you’re wrong. I know that I do matter. I am important. And you’re a pathetic, cold, pointless wastoid who’s going to grow old alone and die, then roast in limbo forever.”

— James Patterson

196. “In the dictionary, next to the word stress, there is a picture of a midsize mutant stuck inside a dog crate, wondering if her destiny is to be killed or to save the world. Okay, not really. But there should be.”

— James Patterson

197. “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.”

— James Patterson

198. “Yes,” I said. “My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.”

— James Patterson

199. “What was premeditated murder if not calculated leverage?”

— James Patterson

200. “What did that stupid deserting crap-bag ex-boyfriend, ex-best friend with the most perfect stupid hair do? He DIDN’T delete his crap off the desktop before he fled my life and left me all alone. That’s what he did.”

— James Patterson