Quotes by James Patterson

I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and thats just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements.

Youre a brave, brave girl, Tula Gaby told her.I know, said the little girl. I got it from you.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

Heres a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “Youre juggling these four balls that youve named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls theyre made of glass.”“Ive dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Seize whats been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

NOOOO! On the screen, a womans eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream.Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.

Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, “Your time is coming to an end, youpathetic failure of an experiment. Vhat you say now is how you vill beremembered.”Gazzy’s blue eyes flashed. “Then you can remember me telling you to kissmy-”“Enough!” ter Borcht said.

They [Erasers] were bad fliers, Angel chimed in, And in their minds, they werent all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

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 Fangs stoic face. Oh. Was I not supposed to say anything? Gazzy asked.

Whats so funny bout peace, love, and world destruction?

I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years.Right up until someone kicked me and said Gotcha!

Because today after all, is all we knew.

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

I loved laughing with him, loved that he could make me laugh.

If youre going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now...Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend... you could giggle more in real life.

To me, thats the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.

Lets face it: Most of us dont realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, its important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. Its called Four Blind Mice and its a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.