James Patterson Quotes

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“I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth”

“Fang! Come Back!" I started pulling his hair. Shaking his head and shoulders. Hard. "Wake up! Snap out of it! You stupid jerk! I am going to kill you if you die on me!”

“Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants… Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.”

“Gazzy: (Hugging himself and jumping up and down) "I'm brilliant! I'm a genius! I can blow up the world!"
Max: (Raises her eyebrows)
Gazzy: "Not that I would want to, of course," (coughs)”

“Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.”

“Who ya gonna call?"
"Ghostbusters!"
"That phrase is ruined forever.”

“Nudge: You aren't.
Iggy (irritably): No. You aren't dead either. How about just 'hello'?”

“Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.”

“There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.”

“I offered to pee on him, but they said no”

“I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.”

“They call me, The Sharkalator”

“So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.”

“If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.”

“I didn't think he was a robot… but I did wonder if his emotions had been designed out of him. Of course, with a guy, how could I tell? Ha ha!”

“Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?”

“WARNING
If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment”

“Excellent. They were flammable.”

“Iggy: "I'll grab a zebra; Gaz, you fill all the bubbles with your trademark scent. so people are choking and gagging; and let's throw beef jerky in their eyes! Now, that's a plan!”

“You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.”

“If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours”

“Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.”

“Good 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.”

“You are avake, yah?" said a voice in a horribly recognizable accent.
"Yah," I muttered, rubbing my head. "And you are still a jerk, yah?”

“You really are a scary man, no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.”

“Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!”

“Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.”

“Frustration was my constant companion. I wanted to scream. "What the he-eck are we supposed to doI asked Fang.
He looked at me, and I could tell he was mulling over the problem. He held out a small waxed-paper bag.
Peanut?”

“It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling "Ordering a pizza?" at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back "Yeah. You want pepperoni?"
-Maximum Ride”

“Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)”

“You stand out like a fart in a church.”

“If your going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”

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

“Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff."
"Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.”

“Fang: When do I get out of here?
Max: They say a week.
Fang: So, like, tomorrow?
Max: That's what I'm thinking.”

“The hamster called. He wants his home back.”

“Where was the catch? 'Cause I knew one was coming.”

“Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.”

“Is this a movie?' I heard someone ask.”

“Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt?”

“But what is life if you don't live it?”

“Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'
Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.”

“Fang was going to kill me. And after I was dead, he would kill me again.”

“I'm a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings. Yo dogbreath, get your paws of the everglades. -Max”

“I choose you, Max. -Fang”

“I'll just ask now: What is it about my persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet?”

“I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out."

Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy.

Dang, I'm good.”

“Oh great. Yoda captured us.”

“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”