...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“If this was what life was like without words - a life of doing, not just talking - I just might be… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“You want me to help you because fair is fair? Life isn't fair Dean. Try help me so I don't rip your… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“wanted that to be my bedroom,” he says. “It’d be so easy to sneak out at night to TP yards, egg cars,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“One only realizes the value of air when one is deprived of it and one only begins to value life in the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“But remember that you have to move on, somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Macklin, being Macklin, just took on a life of his own. I almost never use real people as models for my characters. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“seize the moment, however worried you may be about what’s coming next. It’s your brain, it’s your life, it’s your attitude…. Go… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I guess I should have seen it coming. It’s like every time things start to look okay in my crazy life,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Here's a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I mean,he decided we'd be better apart,you know?it wasn't a joint decision.like, if your gonna make a decision about me and my… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Life is a test. It’s all a test. Sometimes you have to get through it, and then later everything makes more sense.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Love takes chances, and I wanted to take a chance right now. For once in my life, I knew what I wanted.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that you can love someone more than you love life itself, and yet you're still never going to know… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“It's going to give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“At that instant, I knew exactly what I wanted out of life: this. This feeling, this happiness, this embrace.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard. ~Angel” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Just because life is hard and always ends in a bad way doesn't mean that all stories have to. Even if that's… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“He always told me that at some point in your life you get tired of bullshit. You just want the truth. You… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“books of my fellow Living History trippers. Or at least get me out of their bad ones. Now to come up with… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other. — James Patterson Copy Share
“The next forty-five minutes in that office was about as much fun as a day at Disney World—when it’s pouring rain. And all there… — James Patterson Copy Share
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure… — James Patterson Copy Share
Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings… — James Patterson Copy Share
You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work. — James Patterson Copy Share
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what… — James Patterson Copy Share
I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it.… — James Patterson Copy Share
Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars. Cool!' said the Gasman. — James Patterson Copy Share
“It was scary. More than Sara could possibly know. More than anybody ought to know, or ever would. History wasn't for the general public--it… — James Patterson Copy Share
Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where… — James Patterson Copy Share
I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for… — James Patterson Copy Share
When my son, Jack, was four, I had to make a trip to Los Angeles. I asked him if he was going to miss… — James Patterson Copy Share
