James Patterson citations

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“Le secret pour rester en vie? Ne jamais cesser de respirer.”

“Merci pour tout les aides.”

“amour fait les plus grandes douceurs et les plus sensibles infortunes de la vie.”

“Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime, everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths…..

- Iggy”

“Veins practically popping out of his neck, the jerk leaned out his window and yelled a bunch of swear words, including a new one I tucked away in my brain for future use, if necessary.”

“Here's what I was thinking about:1. Who the new threat was 2. The air show in Mexico City 3. How to get Total to quit milking his injury, because enough was enough 4. My mom and Half sister Ella 5. Fang 6. Fang 7. Fang”

“Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.”

“A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.”

“On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog.
So there you go.”

“I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger.
It would perk up my day.”

“Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.”

“The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.”

“You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.”

“What are we but our stories?”

“I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifiedly in love.”

“Choose now,' he spat, his eyes practically shooting sparks. 'Me or him.'

'Gosh, Fang, you romantic fool,' I said sarcastically. 'How incredibly sexist-pig of you.”

“Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.”

“what was fang going to do BLOG about max throwing herself into space so she wouldn't have to kiss him again? NO instead he smashed his fist against the cave wall then grimaced at the pain and stupidity seeing his bloodied knuckles”

“Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature.”

“I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad.”
“Me, too,” said Gazzy. “I want to find my parents so I can tell’m what total scuzzes they are. Like, ‘Hi, mom and dad, you’re such scum!”

“Another day. Get up and face it.”

“It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.”

“Later," Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has.”

“I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could
have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer”

“You have a memory chip that small implanted in you,” he verified.
I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.”

“Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.”

“Have you ever been to Colorado?"
I frowned. "Is that one of those square ones, in the middle?”

“Harden your heart.”

“Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.”

“We're just not cut out for all this media circus crap.
But then, you already knew that.”

“I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.”
Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.”

“I love you Max,"Fang said…"God, Max I love you so much."
I know. I thought. I've always known”