1,151 Quotes by James Patterson

If number two pencils are so popular, why are they still number two?

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.

We know,” Nudge said apologetically. “It’s just – she’s going to make sweet potatoes with raisins and little marshmallows on top.

They come in all shapes and sizes, all races and creeds and genders. That’s the scariest thing of all.

We’re headed for the South Pole!” Gazzy jumped over the low threshold into our room from the boys’ room next door. “And it’s, like, so far south that it’s the bottom of the whole world.

I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you’re sleeping.

Yes. I owed my life, Angel’s life, and my mother’s life to a mutant’s ability to create industrial-strength snot.

Let’s just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave fresh compost behind them; no one would be hungry; no one would be ill; all buildings would be earthquake-, bomb-, and flood-proof; and the world’s entire economy would have collapsed and been replaced by one based on the value of chocolate.

It doesn’t matter what the end looks like- what matters is that it came. Bam, you’re done. But life? There are degrees of life. You can live it well or half-asleep. You can go sledding down a sand dune, or you can spend your life in front of the TV. And i don’t mean to sound like a stupid after-school special, but you have to keep living the way we did these last weeks. Risk. That’s the secret. Risk everything.