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!
“Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a damn, as long as they don’t get caught. But evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from Shadowfever
“Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from The Grapes of Wrath
“I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from City of Glass
“Lennon said that life’s what happens when you’re making other plans.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, quote from A Dog's Purpose
“Jake Wexler, standing or sitting when not lying down”
― Ellen Raskin, quote from The Westing Game
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