A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night.
--James Patterson
Assume nothing, question everything.
--James Patterson
Don't mistake the edge of a rut for the horizon.
--James Patterson
Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.
--James Patterson
Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.
--James Patterson
Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.
--James Patterson
Home is wherever we all are together.
--James Patterson
I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.
--James Patterson
I never miss a good chance to shut up.
--James Patterson
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
--James Patterson
Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.
--James Patterson
It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.
--James Patterson
Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.
--James Patterson
Men suck, even imaginary ones.
--James Patterson
Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.
--James Patterson
Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.
--James Patterson
Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.
--James Patterson
The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.
--James Patterson
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.
--James Patterson
There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.
--James Patterson
We is always so much better than I.
--James Patterson
What are we but our stories?
--James Patterson
What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?
--James Patterson
What's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
--James Patterson
When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.
--James Patterson
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.
--James Patterson
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