Top 500 James Patterson Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wraped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe. “ZOMG,” I heard Nudge whisper.”

— James Patterson

402. “Exercise the right to think for yourself.”

— James Patterson

403. “I called for back up,” Nudge said. “The police, fire department, paramedics, and a few different pizza delivery places are all on their way.”

— James Patterson

404. “Why is this happening? Who knows, really? Life and existence can never be fully understood. Stars are born only to explode. Creatures hunt other creatures, and then they die. The universe is a chaos of irrational forces wrestling with one another in a war without end. The human race is on the receiving end now.”

— James Patterson

405. “Fang snapped out his huge wings and shone the penlight under his chin so it raked his cheekbones and eyes. My mouth dropped open: He looked like the angel of death.”

— James Patterson

406. “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

407. “I still felt like I might hurl, and I thought about how awful that would be in midair.”

— James Patterson

408. “You love me this much!”

— James Patterson

409. “My dear, there is no universal secret. There’s only the secret each writer discovers for herself. The path forward.”

— James Patterson

410. “Fang is not the huggiest person in the world – he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which.”

— James Patterson

411. “Irony sort of reaches up and slaps you in the face sometimes, doesn’t it?”

— James Patterson

412. “It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one’s thoughts keep swirling through one’s brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.”

— James Patterson

413. “If you know the why, you can figure out the who.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

415. “Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else. Thank you, Confucious.”

— James Patterson

416. “But if I could do anything? Maybe you would want to be able to save the world, the Voice said. Did you ever think of that? No. I frowned. Leave that to the grown-ups. But grown-ups are the ones destroying the world, the Voice said. Think about it.”

— James Patterson

417. “You put on a mask. But don’t you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes.”

— James Patterson

418. “Itsumademo ai shiteru, Yuki. I love you forever, my daughter.”

— James Patterson

419. “I hoped I wasn’t actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.”

— James Patterson

420. “I’m not a writer’s writer. I’m not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.”

— James Patterson

421. “I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It’s very disciplined, yes, but it’s joy for me.”

— James Patterson

422. “You know. “I only know that I’ve lost my faith in You.” The “voice” resonated in my mind. I haven’t lost mine in you.”

— James Patterson

423. “He was laid-back. Drugs’ll do that to a person. Take a pill and you’re not really crazy anymore.”

— James Patterson

424. “Max:“So the first thing we’re going to do,” I told him, “is push you off the roof.”

— James Patterson

425. “Why did she do this to me?” I mumble. “Actually, Samuel, from my preliminary scans of your internal organs, it does not appear that our mother has done anything to you. Were you in need of repair as well? If so, I am certain she will –.”

— James Patterson

426. “Anne is quite the animal lover,” Fang said to me as we followed Angel. “Horses, sheep, goats. Chickens. Pigs.” “Yeah,” I said. “I wonder who’s for dinner?”

— James Patterson

427. “When my son, Jack, was four, I had to make a trip to Los Angeles. I asked him if he was going to miss me. ‘Not so much,’ Jack told me. ‘You’re not going to miss me?’ I said. Jack shook his head, and he said, ‘Love means you can never be apart.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

429. “The only thing that beats One is two, and three, and four.”

— James Patterson

430. “I was speechless. Which is, as you know, very rare.”

— James Patterson

431. “Five minutes,” I said, and walked away, but my heart was still going just as fast as before. This was only half over. Was it five minutes until I pulled this off? Or five minutes to live?”

— James Patterson

432. “And why was the blind guy on watch, you might ask? Because a cockroach couldn’t come within fifty feet of us without his knowing it. Iggy.”

— James Patterson

433. “If I never had another thing, Id have everything.”

— James Patterson

434. “There,” I said. “Decades of psycho logic picked apart in three seconds by an eleven-year-old. Take that, modern science!”

— James Patterson

435. “Boy, you just can’t kill people like you used to,” said Fang.”

— James Patterson

436. “However, I had been hoping that Donald Trump would just drop me off in one of his helicopters.”

— James Patterson

437. “We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.”

— James Patterson

438. “It’s a baby plane,” Angel whispered when we first got inside the dollhouse-like interior. “It’s going to grow up to be a seven forty-seven someday.”

— James Patterson

439. “We Stink was going to sink like the Titanic.”

— James Patterson

440. “Terrible. This morning, when I put on my underwear, I could hear the Fruit of the Loom guys laughing at me.”

— James Patterson

441. “He’s gonna be fine,” I confirmed. “Can we see him?” Iggy asked. “Ig, I hate to break this to you, but you’re blind,” I said, my relief making me tease him. “However, in a little while you can go listen to him breathe and maybe talk to him.”

— James Patterson

442. “Oh great. Yoda captured us.”

— James Patterson

443. “We know,” Nudge said apologetically. “It’s just – she’s going to make sweet potatoes with raisins and little marshmallows on top.”

— James Patterson

444. “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

445. “I hugged everyone, sat down beside Cindy Thomas and Yuki Castellano, Claire’s best girlfriends and mine, the four of us making up the entire membership of what we half jokingly call the “Women’s Murder Club.”

— James Patterson

446. “But even when patients die under totally hinky circumstances, people think doctors are so Godlike, they just accept whatever they’re told.”

— James Patterson

447. “I don’t know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.”

— James Patterson

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

— James Patterson

449. “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

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

— James Patterson