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!
“we who determine how quickly time passes.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Pilgrimage
“He follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement.”
― Thomas Harris, quote from Hannibal Rising
“ Boorab's spear was a window pole. He stood on the second step, barring their way. "Who goes there? State y'business, wot?"
Brother Hoben tapped an impatient paw on the bottom step. "Come out of the way, please. We'ew going to the walltop."
The hare twitched his whiskers officiously. "No Dibbuns allowed up here. You're not Dibbuns, are you?"
Cregga took hold of the window pole he was clasping and lifted both Boorab and the pole, with one paw, down onto the grass. "Do we look like Dibbuns? Don't try my patience, sah!"
"Just doin' one's duty," he muttered up the steps after them, somewhat creastfallen. "I was only asking a civil question, wot. Humph, some creautres!”
― Brian Jacques, quote from Taggerung
“But I think we often settle for sex when we want love. And we often want love when we need something else, like a good job or a chance to go back to school.”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Woman on the Edge of Time
“I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It is preposterous on the face of it, does not deserve its sanctity, is contradicted by a mass of evidence, and is getting in the way of the only morally relevant goal surrounding rape, the effort to stamp it out.”
― Steven Pinker, quote from The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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