“Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“It is my time. The time of maximum ride...”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream.
Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“Sometimes being a leader isn’t about winning. Sometimes it’s about doing what’s right, instead of what’s powerful.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“I was breathless, talking as fast as I could. I was afraid if I stopped talking, even for a second, I’d start sobbing again.
“Whoa, there.” Fang smiled and reached up, tracing a hand down the side of my face, winding strands of my hair around his fingers. “Stop talking and let me just tell you how great it is to wake up staring at your face. Okay?”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“He nuzzled my neck, inhaling deeply. “Mmm. You smell so good.”
“Oh, yeah,” I said, smirking. “I call this new perfume ‘Le Jungle grime et tropical BO.’ ”
“Dirt and sweat. Very sexy.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“Denial is not just a river in Egypt.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“Save your world. Love it,protect it, respect it, and don't let the haters represent it.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“This was a perfect storm of crap, all flying through the same fan, right at him.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“fuzzy black lines hiccuped across the screen.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“Think about it. When the end comes, will you be buried in the arms of the one you love? Of the one who knew you your whole life, who loved you your whole life? The only person who could really and truly love you like you needed to be loved? I hope so.”
― James Patterson, quote from Nevermore
“Finns squares his shoulders—which have gotten a good deal sturdier since I last saw him. Or paid attention, at any rate. How long has it been since I actually looked? He's gotten awfully handsome; it can't have happened overnight.”
― Jessica Spotswood, quote from Born Wicked
“They were also natives of Belgium, and this Avi prized above all. They knew Brussels in particular, inside and out, and they not only had excellent contacts throughout the country but seemed to excel at making new contacts that proved equally valuable. Jacob had never had friends like this in Siegen. His friends were not as interesting, not as well-read, and not nearly as committed to a common goal against a common foe. But here, in the danger-drenched climate of Nazi-controlled Europe, it was a combination that quickly bonded these four young men to each other and to Avi.”
― Joel C. Rosenberg, quote from The Auschwitz Escape
“The people celebrate with our traditional dancing: the women clapping their hands and chanting, their low sweet voices humming across the desert night, and the men leaping high into the air. Everyone contributes food, and we eat”
― Waris Dirie, quote from Desert Flower
“All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.”
― Patrick McCabe, quote from The Butcher Boy
“But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water--the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, quote from The Brief History of the Dead
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