Pittacus Lore Quotes

“If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

“Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat.”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

“How do we know that’s really John?’ she asks. ‘Setrákus Ra can change forms. This might be some kind of trap.’ In my excitement to hear John and Sam, I hadn’t even considered the possibility that this could be a ploy. Behind me, Nine shouts towards the communicator.
‘Hey, Johnny, remember back in Chicago? When you were claiming to be Pittacus Lore and we had a debate about whether to go to New Mexico?’
‘Yeah,’ John’s voice sounds like it’s coming through clenched teeth.
‘How’d we settle that?’
John sighs. ‘You dangled me off the edge of the roof.’
Nine grins like that’s the best thing ever. ‘It’s definitely him.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Revenge of Seven

“They have him,' Marina hisses, pointing into the dark. 'They have his body and I'm not letting them keep it.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Revenge of Seven

“I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten

“In the beginning we were a group of nine.
Three are gone, dead.
There are six of us left.
They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am number four.
I know that I am next”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

“THE EVENTS IN THIS BOOK ARE REAL.

NAMES ANS PLACES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE LORIEN, WHO REMAIN IN HIDING.

OTHER CIVILIZATIONS DO EXIST.

SOME OF THEM SEEK TO DESTROY YOU.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten

“I know that he won't hurt me--not yet, at least. He's too vain for that, wants too badly to convert another Loric into the cause”
― Pittacus Lore, The Revenge of Seven

“You lose track of time when you're deep in conservation with an otherworldly being made of pure Loric energy.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten

“This is war, and people are going to die. Friends are going to die. I've come to accept the pain, to take the ugliness for granted. So it can be a little stunning when something good actually happens.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten

“If Mark really had managed to acquire some information about the Mogodorians, and if doing so had gotten him into some kind of trouble, then we needed to help him”
― Pittacus Lore, The Revenge of Seven

“Whatever you're thinking, it's a bad idea.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten

“In the beginning we were a group of nine.
Three are gone, dead.
There are six of us left.
They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am number four.
I know that I am next.”
― Pittacus Lore I am Number Four

“Twelve down, like a hundred thousand left to go.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten

“Overconfidence gets you dead.”
― Pittacus Lore, United as One

“You are not responsible for the murderous rampage of an alien psycho, okay?”
― Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten

“What's stopping you then?"
"Apathy and a broken heart," I say. "Both of those will go away eventually, though, and that's when I'll just get up and leave.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

“I saw it, Six,’ Marina whispers to me. ‘When I kissed him, I saw inside the thing – Lorien, the energy, whatever you want to call it.’

‘Okay,’ I say, wanting to be gentle with her, but not sure we have time for this. ‘And?’

Marina grins at me. ‘It’s spreading, Six. Through the Earth. It’s spreading everywhere.’

‘What does that mean?’ Adam asks.

‘It means,’ Marina says, wiping her face and standing up straight, ‘that we aren’t alone anymore.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Revenge of Seven