James Patterson · 288 pages
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“All teachers who were telling everyone where to go were wearing outfits made of aluminum foil , like robot aliens . ”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!
“I mean Zeke McDonald and Kenny Patel, the left and right butt cheeks of Cathedral School of the Arts.”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!
“TWENTY-TWO HOURS AND FORTY-NINE MINUTES LATER (NOT THAT I WAS COUNTING OR ANYTHING) To:”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!
“My father left when I was four and Georgia was two. That was about a year after Leo died. Once he was gone, we never heard from him again. End of story.”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!
“I could have farted out loud, and it would have been less embarrassing than the silence. Finally,”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!
“Twenty-three thousand years ago, someone created this image on the wall of a cave,” Mr. Beekman said. “Now, who do you suppose was the artist here?” “Was it you?”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!
“Move over, Wimpy Kid—RAFE K. has arrived!”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!
“and he learned that when Johnson gave an assignment, no excuses were accepted. “He used to say, ‘I want only can do people.’ That was one of his favorite expressions. ‘I only want can do people around. I don’t want anybody who tells me that they can’t do something.’ ”
― Robert A. Caro, quote from Master of the Senate
“Labienus first tried, under cover of a line of mantlets, to make a causeway across the marsh on a foundation of fascines and other material. Finding this too difficult, he silently quitted his camp some time after midnight and retraced his steps to Metlosedum, a town of the Senones situated like Lutetia on an island in the river. He seized some fifty boats, quickly lashed them together to form a bridge, and sent troops across to the island.”
― Gaius Julius Caesar, quote from The Conquest of Gaul
“I was quick to pounce on his moral flaws and slow to recognize my own blind sin. But because he stayed faithful, by offering his body as a target but never as a weapon, he broke through my moral calluses. The real goal, King used to say, was not to defeat the white man, but “to awaken a sense149 of shame within the oppressor and challenge his false sense of superiority…. The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community.” And that is what Martin Luther King Jr. finally set into motion, even in racists like me.”
― Philip Yancey, quote from The Jesus I Never Knew
“Yes. I have see Him, but He is the god of Death, not some knight to be swooned over.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“It is terribly bad form to admit to being terrified for one’s life, but nobody in their right mind would go to a Court banquet without making preparations. One must have the right costume, the right Faces, and at least eighty-two ways of avoiding assassination.”
― Frances Hardinge, quote from A Face Like Glass
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