01UndatedHe could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.""I'm only a kid!" I shrieked. "I can't get married!""You could in New Hampshire."James Patterson / quote ↗
03UndatedA friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the nightJames Patterson / quote ↗
04UndatedThis time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.James Patterson / quote ↗
06UndatedImagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.James Patterson / quote ↗
07UndatedGood 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedJust because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.James Patterson / quote ↗
12UndatedBasically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.James Patterson / quote ↗
13UndatedMan, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?" "Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd beenJames Patterson / quote ↗
14UndatedThey turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing."Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned."That can be his Indian name," I suggested.James Patterson / quote ↗
15UndatedI can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.James Patterson / quote ↗
16UndatedI feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.James Patterson / quote ↗
18UndatedMax, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?James Patterson / quote ↗
19UndatedHow did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?"Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.James Patterson / quote ↗
20UndatedNow, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries."I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.James Patterson / quote ↗
21UndatedThat was the funniest thing I'd heard in days.You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me than 'fair is fair.' Life isn't FAIR, Dean....Nothing is fair, EVER. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I need to help you because FAIR IS FAIR? Try, 'I need you to help me so I won't rip out your spine and beat you with it.' I MIGHT respond to that. MAYBE.James Patterson / quote ↗
22UndatedMeaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open."Have you been watching Oprah again?James Patterson / quote ↗
23UndatedQ: You'er presented with a smooth-faced, eight-foot-high wooden wall. Your objective? Get over it. To, like, save comrades or something. How to accomplish this?A: Take a running start, brace one foot against the wall, throw one hand to the top, try to hang on long enough for a comrade to either grab your hand at the top or for another comrade to push your butt up from below. It takes team work! over it.James Patterson / quote ↗
