James Patterson Quotes
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501. “I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.”

— James Patterson

502. “You’re a Capricorn to the core. Organized, loves structure, not driven by impulse, a master of restraint.”

— James Patterson

503. “If your going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”

— James Patterson

504. “What’s so funny ’bout peace, love, and world destruction?”

— James Patterson

505. “Ray Bradbury had once written that “living at risk is jumping off a cliff, and building your wings on the way down.” Sampson.”

— James Patterson

506. “The world was becoming a zoo, without cages.”

— James Patterson

507. “Excuse me? I’m alive too.”

— James Patterson

508. “I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.”

— James Patterson

509. “You love him so much it feels like you can’t go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

511. “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

512. “Murder can be made to look like suicide, and suicide can be made to look like Murder.”

— James Patterson

513. “I was always a good student, but I didn’t read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.”

— James Patterson

514. “You love me this much!”

— James Patterson

515. “Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.”

— James Patterson

516. “I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifiedly in love.”

— James Patterson

517. “You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.”

— James Patterson

518. “Part 5 The Voice- Make that my voice.”

— James Patterson

519. “Across from the famous jewelry store on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-Seventh Street, we sat in the back of a graffiti-covered white box truck watching the world go by on the surveillance vehicle’s hidden high-def camera. So far there had been no sign of the thieves. Or even Audrey Hepburn.”

— James Patterson

520. “Lots of women are gifting themselves with diamonds for their right hand.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

522. “You will never stumble while on your knees.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

525. “What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?”

— James Patterson

526. “People always come up to me and say, ‘you should do standup.’ It’s nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.”

— James Patterson

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527. “Another day. Get up and face it.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

529. “If number two pencils are so popular, why are they still number two?”

— James Patterson

530. “Yes. I owed my life, Angel’s life, and my mother’s life to a mutant’s ability to create industrial-strength snot.”

— James Patterson

531. “There’s a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.”

— James Patterson

532. “What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do.”

— James Patterson

533. “Iggy’s spine tightened, his face like ice. When he’d been at the School, they’d tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops.”

— James Patterson

534. “I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.”

— James Patterson

535. “My parents were just carried out of the building in the service elevator,” he shouted at the cops. “They were vile, but they didn’t deserve to be taken out with the trash!”

— James Patterson

536. “He was already a sociopath, and he was just out of kinder-garten. I didn’t think much of it at the time. It was the family way.”

— James Patterson

537. “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

538. “Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

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540. “On the other hand, even a big, ’80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.”

— James Patterson

541. “You’re the most stubborn person I’ve ever met, and sometimes it seems like your sole purpose in life is to make mine harder, but I swear, I love you more than I thought I could love anyone.”

— James Patterson

542. “Little books can mean big things, baby books are things that you probably might not know.”

— James Patterson

543. “If I could run the world, I’d find another way to treat most of these criminals – most of them, not all of them – but we find widespread solutions to widespread problems in this country, so we just build big prisons and stick everyone inside them and, for the most part, forget about them once they’re gone. Noah.”

— James Patterson

544. “Every journey begins with one step.”

— James Patterson

545. “The doors of every house have a unique sound when they open and close.”

— James Patterson

546. “No one ever leaves alive The house at 7 Ocean Drive.”

— James Patterson

547. “What’s good for the goose is definitely good for the desperate housewife. Even if this never happened again.”

— James Patterson

548. “I wanted an endless summer with you. But then darkness always comes doesn’t it? Just a fact of life, i guess.”

— James Patterson

549. “There was freedom in the pain. It meant he was still alive, still feeling, and he felt invincible. Whatever they did to him, however hard they fought, in the end, he would win.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson