“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to someone else.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“I watched the way our fingers intertwined, and I thought, What are hands made for but this? For holding. For holding on.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“I loved her,” Robinson said. “And I loved the sick girl you were when I met you, and I loved the good student and the bad driver. I loved the car thief, the hitchhiker, the quoter of novels I haven’t read, and the hater of Slim Jims… Axi Moore, I’ve loved every you there ever was.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“I was afraid of what I felt. But was that the only reason it was so hard to admit it to him? Or was I afraid that he didn’t feel the same? Yes, I was definitely afraid of that.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“He was my light, my heart, my beautiful scalawag. And I was—I am—his GG.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“If this was what life was like without words - a life of doing, not just talking - I just might be willing to give them up forever.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“I think about what I didn't say then, which is this: the stars we see aren't even real stars. We see the light that they gave off millions of years ago but that is only now reaching our eyes. We don't see a star as much as a memory.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“It doesn’t matter what the end looks like—what matters is that it came. Bam, you’re done. But life, Axi? 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, Axi. That’s the secret. Risk everything.”
I nodded, trying not to cry again. “Okay. But I might not keep stealing cars.”
“That’s all right,” he said.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“Is it possible that you can love someone more than you love life itself, and yet you're still never going to know for sure everything he's thinking?”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“It was stupidly, infuriatingly impossible. No wonder I hadn’t written anything decent in ages— I couldn’t even figure out how to tell a boy that I loved him.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“Don’t drive like you own the road; drive like you own the car.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“Speed never killed anyone! It’s suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“That if I had to choose between dying tomorrow or spending the rest of my life without him, I would seriously consider picking imminent death.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“There was another thing I hadn’t counted on. And that was falling in love, as fast and irrevocably as you would fall off a cliff, and realizing that loving someone might mean to simultaneously want to slug them and hold them and possibly have to watch them die.… I hadn’t counted on that.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“Regret is a waste of time.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“Whether or not he wanted me the same way I wanted him, we were in this together—that was what Robinson had said. It had never occurred to me before what a complicated word together was.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“Because today after all, is all we knew.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“Like our bodies and our hearts had to be together to make one whole, perfect person.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“I think it was love at first sight for both of us; it just took us a little while to figure it out. That was understandable, considering we were being stuck with needles, shot through with radioactive particles, possibly poisoned by the horrific substances the hospital tried to pass off as food, and then, when we got discharged, running away and stealing cars together.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“If life were a movie, we'd have had what they call a “meet cute".”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“Hey, Axi. What’s the difference between a doctor and a lawyer?” I knew this joke—it was one of Robinson’s standards. And I was only half-surprised he was trotting it out now. Playing along, I said, “I don’t know. What?” “A lawyer will rob you; a doctor will rob you and kill you, too.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“I picked a star and wished as hard as i could that somehow i could protect him from what was on the horizon”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“Michelangelo didn’t show David triumphant, the way every other sculptor did. He showed David before he fought Goliath—when David believed he was doomed and went into battle anyway.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“My dear, there is no universal secret. There's only the secret each writer discovers for herself. The path forward”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“IF YOU ASK ME A PERSON DOESNT GET ENOUGH SURPRISES IN A LIFE TIME.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They’re for people my age. (“People who were texting,” my dad liked to remind me—because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“AS WE LAY THERE WE FELT LIKE WE WERE EXTENSTIONS OF EACH OTHER, LIKE OUR BODIES AND OUR HEARTS HAD TO BE TOGETHER TO MAKE ONE WHOLE PERFECT PERSON.”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
“A small, weak part that just wanted to be a little girl again, with a family that wasn't sick and broken. But that sure wasn't going to happen, was it?”
― James Patterson, quote from First Love
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“There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge of {the lake}, memory blossoms floated unbounded, as though breathed, no words spoken. Like birds that fly across national borders, between countries at war at each other.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from Little Altars Everywhere
“And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.”
― D.H. Lawrence, quote from Women in Love
“On the seventh day, Howard turned off the trail and sat by the river and smoked a pipeful of tobacco that he had packed for the hermit. As he smoked, he listened to the voices in the rapids. They murmured about a place somewhere deep in the woods where a set of bones lay on a bed of moss, above which a troop of mournful flies had kept vigil the previous autumn until the frosts came, and they, too, had succumbed.”
― Paul Harding, quote from Tinkers
“Everything we do, talí, we do with honor.”
― quote from Stalking Darkness
“Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from The Bastard of Istanbul
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