Quotes from Along Came a Spider

James Patterson ·  435 pages

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“I never miss a good chance to shut up”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“What do you talk about to a murderer, and someone you loved, over a perfect dinner and cocktails? I wanted to know so many things, but I couldn't ask any of the real-questions pounding in my head. Instead, we talked of the coming vacation days, a "plan" for the
here and now in the islands.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“It’s all right to put the weight of the world on your shoulders sometimes, if you know how to take it off.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“I was thirty-eight at the time. As the saying goes, if I’d known I was going to live that long, I would have taken better care of myself.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“Maybe you’ll learn something about life beyond Batman.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider



“It’s a common enough psych term,” I told him. “All of us shrinks talk about VFC when we get together. Very fucking crazy, Gerry.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“Little books can mean big things, baby books are things that you probably might not know.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“The doors of every house have a unique sound when they open and close.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“I knew that she was a psychopath, just like Gary. No conscience. I believed that business, the government, Wall Street were filled with people like that. No regret for their actions. Not unless they got caught. Then the crocodile tears started. “What”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“equal dose of potassium chloride was administered. This drug relaxes the heart and stops its pumping.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider



“No one had figured out any of the other murders he’d done, had they? They got John Wayne Gacy, Jr., after over thirty murders in Chitown. Jeffrey Dahmer went down after seventeen in Milwaukee. Gary had murdered more than both of them put together. But no one knew who he was, or where he was, or what he planned to do next.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“They come in all shapes and sizes, all races and creeds and genders. That's the scariest thing of all”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“STATE TROOPERS Mick Fescoe and Bobby Hatfield were about”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“Nunca sabes qué vas a encontrar. Lo espectacular siempre está ahí, esperando que tú lo encuentres.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“—¿No lo entiendes, Alex? No, creo que no lo entiendes.
—¿Qué es lo que no entiendo, Jezzie? Dímelo de una vez.
—Siempre estás buscando la parte buena de la gente. Pero no existe.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider



“All of us shrinks talk about VFC when we get together. Very fucking crazy, Gerry.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“—Madre, hija, niño de tres años —insistí, empezando otra vez a enfadarme—. A nadie les importan una mierda.
—¿Y qué? Nadie se preocupaba por ellos cuando estaban vivos. ¿Por qué esperas que se preocupen ahora que han muerto?”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“También nos decimos adiós, sólo por si no volvemos a vernos nunca.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


“with all these serial killer Waynes, anyway? Wayne Williams. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Patrick Wayne Hearney, who dismembered thirty-two human beings on the West Coast.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider


About the author

James Patterson
Born place: in Newburgh, New York, The United States
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