1,151 Quotes by James Patterson



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    Somehow all troubles and cares seemed to diminish when you were with the people you loved. Then.

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    I’m not a writer’s writer. I’m not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

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    I stood there watching Phoebe arrange the pillows and the sheets. She isn’t thinking that I... I mean, she doesn’t think that she and I would... WHAT?

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    Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn’t sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?

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    Yesterday I asked my teacher, ‘How come I have to study English? I’m never going to England!’ ” Stevie still isn’t laughing, but.

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    The most striking thing about beautiful churches, to me, is that they were mostly designed by people who were inspired by a belief in something larger and more important than themselves, and this is how I try to lead my own life.

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    What do you think I am, some kind of idiot?” Attention! Do not answer that question! I repeat, do NOT answer that question!

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