Quotes from Roses are Red

James Patterson ·  416 pages

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“Here's a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass.”
“I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red


“if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red


“If you’re going around in circles, maybe you’re cutting corners.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red


“Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red


“waiting in hospitals is as close as we get to being in hell before our time,”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red



“up beside the car. Then he pulled out a Sig Sauer”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red


“I told the truth and shamed the devil.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red


“He wanted an heir, a tiny piece of immortality.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red


“I climbed out of my old Porsche in the staff”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red


About the author

James Patterson
Born place: in Newburgh, New York, The United States
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