James Patterson Quotes

“Vhat ozzer abilities do you haf?" ter Borcht snapped, which his assistant waited, pen in hand.
Gazzy thought. "I have X-ray vision," he said. He peered at ter Borcht's chest, then blinked and looked alarmed.
Ter Borcht was startled for a second, but then he frowned. "Don't write dat down," he told his assistant in irritation. The assistant froze in midsentence.
"You. Do you haf any qualities dat distinguish you in any way?"
Nudge chewed on a fingernail. "You mean, like, besides the WINGS?" She shook her shoulders gently, and her beautiful fawn-colored wings unfolded a bit.
His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings."
"Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um..." Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!"
"Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly.
Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it."
...
"I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."
Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony."
Ter Borcht tsked. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold on to someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?"
"Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert"
...Fang pretended to think, gazing up at the ceiling. "Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica."
"I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahrs!" Gazzy barked.”
― James Patterson

“I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.”
― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“I choose you," he said very softly, "Max."
Then his hard, rough hand tenderly cuppoed my chin, and suddenly his mouth was on mine, and every synapse in my brain shorted out.
We had kissed a couple of times before, but this was different. This time, I squelched my immediate, overwhelming desire to run away screaming. I closed my eyes and put my arms around him despite my fear. Then somehow we slid sideways so we were lying in the cool sand. I was holding him fiercely, and he was kissing me fiercely, and it was...just so, so intensely good. Once I got past my usual, gut-wrenching terror, there was a long, sweet slide into mindlessness, when all I felt was Fang, and all I heard was his breathing, and all I could think was "Oh, God, I want to do this all the time.”
― James Patterson, Max

“And Flock Rule Number Two is, Don't argue with Max or you'll live to regret it." I spun and stomped out to the clearing, turning back for one last jab at Dylan. "And by the way, you clearly DON'T know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not."
Fang rolled his eyes.”
― James Patterson

“You stand out like a fart in a church.”
― James Patterson, The Final Warning

“you're a diabolical little pyro, aren't you?
He blushed modestly.”
― James Patterson

“Yeah, and so Max and Dylan are supposed to, like, go to Germany and have kids together," I heard Gazzy say.
My eyes popped open and I bolted upright.
"What?" Fang said, his voice icy.
"Gazzy!" I yelled.
Wide blue eyes looked at me in surprise, then back at Fang's stoic face. "Oh. Was I not supposed to say anything?" Gazzy asked.”
― James Patterson

“I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together,”
― James Patterson

“Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars...”
― Brandi L. Bates, Soledad

“You know, it sounds like you guys didn’t really think this all the way through. You plugged us into an equation and predicted outcomes. Well, I got news for you, nimrod. In this equation of yours, we’re variables. We’re going to vary. What you sick jerks don’t seem to get is that I’m an actual person. She’s real too. She’s a person. All of us are! And I’m done jumping through your hoops. You can tell yourselves that you’re doing all this to save the world, but really you’re just a bunch of psycho puppet-masters who probably didn’t date enough in high school.”
― Maximum Ride in Maximum Ride School's Out - Forever by James Patterson

“People always talk about how great it is to get older. All I saw were more rules and more adults telling me what I could and couldn't do, in the name of what's " good for me." Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.”
― James Patterson, The Worst Years of My Life

“A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.”
― James Patterson, The Fire

“My eyes flickered when I heard the Voice inside my head. (You mean you don’t have one? You can get ‘em at Target.)”
― James Patterson, The Final Warning

“People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.”
― James Patterson, The Final Warning

“Sometimes I look at you and I just can't believe you're mine”
― James Patterson

“People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.

~Angel”
― James Patterson, The Final Warning

“When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station”
― James Patterson, Kill Me If You Can

“Sex là sự thật trong tất cả những sự dối trá”
― James Patterson

“A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was a teenager and her mother was ... well, her mother. Normally they were the best of friends, but even best friends fight.”
― James Patterson, Don't Blink

“Riječi koje odaberemo otkrivaju kakav smo karakter.”
― James Patterson, Now You See Her

“Teži način je jedini način.”
― James Patterson, Now You See Her

“James Patterson is a writer of fiction who is like a factory churning out title after title. His 2025 book on Marilyn is billed as a “true crime story.” Huge swaths of invented dialog and numerous fake scenes prove otherwise. Egregiously, the book promulgates the lies of fraudsters like Bob Slatzer and Jeanne Carmen. Despite packing it with obscure details that will impress readers, Patterson and his co-author Imogen Edwards-Jones have indiscriminately swept into their manuscript many false statements. Such as MM was “taking 20 Nembutals a day, downing the capsules with vodka or Champagne;” J. Edgar Hoover’s “suspicion that she is a Communist is confirmed;” there was “a trail of white pills scattered on the carpet” of her bedroom and “15 bottles of...knockout drops.” The authors use a quote from a manuscript by Ben Hecht, which has Marilyn supposedly saying, “Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.” But MM had her lawyer threaten Hecht if his manuscript—which was “not accurate...not true”—wasn’t withdrawn. Patterson, who is reportedly worth $800 million, will get his massive book sales, but at the expense of Marilyn’s reputation.”
― Larry Jordan, Silenced: New Evidence In the Mysterious Deaths Of Marilyn Monroe & Dorothy Kilgallen

“... You will lose all hope. And that foul, rotting hopelessness, that abject feeling of pointlessness and futility, is the most defeating of all human experiences.”
― James Patterson