I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.
James PattersonA lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.
James PattersonWhile carefully synchronizing our wings-they almost touched-Fang leaned in,gently put one hand behind my neck and kissed me.It was just about close to heaven i'll ever get,I guess.I closed my eyes,lost in the feeling of flying and kissing and being with the one person in the world I completely ,utterly trusted.
James PattersonDid you know that wasnโt me, the other Max?โ I asked. โYeah.โ โWhen?โ โRight away.โ โHow?โ I persisted. โWe look identical. She even had identical scars and scratches. She was wearing my clothes. How could you tell us apart?โ He turned to me and grinned, making my world brighter. โShe offered to cook breakfast.
James Patterson