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Keep your small mind open," said Nana, wagging a crooked pinkie finger at Jannie. "That's if you ever want it to grow bigger and don't want to remain a small person all your life."
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But let's face it: Understanding me--I mean, really understanding me and my nutty life--isn't so easy. That's why it's so hard for me to find people I can trust. The truth is, I don't know who I can trust. So mostly I don't trust anybody. Except my mom, Jules. (Most of the time, anyway.)
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IF YOU ASK ME A PERSON DOESNT GET ENOUGH SURPRISES IN A LIFE TIME.
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love
surprise
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If I could run the world, I'd find another way to treat most of these criminals--most of them, not all of them--but we find widespread solutions to widespread problems in this country, so we just build big prisons and stick everyone inside them and, for the most part, forget about them once they're gone. Noah
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When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station
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russian
killer
mafia
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Cuando lees un libro lo suficientemente bueno, de alguna manera has hecho las cosas sobre las que leiste.
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Knowledge truly is power, it's everything; if you don't have any, pretend you do.
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James Patterson |
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A guy who hates his job isn't going to be too charming at home.
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What you mean is, he's a total asshat,
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James Patterson |
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Se Souvenir de Moi. Remember Me.
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James Patterson |
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So let's not ruin this by thinking too much about tomorrow. Don't make a wonderful weekend into a bad Monday.
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seclusion
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You string people along enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus
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He was the Teacher, the world was his students, and class was about to begin.
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James Patterson |
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Two LADIES AND GENTLEMEN... ME!
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James Patterson |
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At every turn I took, I prayed that I would not stumble over her body. Every time I didn't, it gave me hope that she was still alive.
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He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. "Can we see him?" Iggy asked. "Ig, I hate to break this to you, but you're blind," I said, my relief making me tease him. "However, in a little while you can go listen to him breathe and maybe talk to him."
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quivering, as if she couldn't decide whether to laugh or frown. I love my mom, and I have no idea how she can find Rafe funny. It must be a gene I missed. "So, are you two excited for your first day?" Mom asked. Changing the subject. Nicely done, Mom. "I can't wait," Rafe and I said together. Only his voice clearly meant "I can wait," while my voice meant "I'm so excited that I'm about to explode!"
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Ngu xuan la thu toi chua bao gio danh gia thap
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Total?" I said when he was close. "Can you talk?" He flopped down on the grass, panting slightly. "Yeah. So?" Jeezum. I mean, mutant weirdos are nothing new to me, you know? But a talking dog? "Why didn't you mention this before?" I asked him. "It's not like I lied about it," said Total, reaching up with a hind leg to scratch behind one ear. "Between you and me, I'm still trying to get used to the whole flying-kid thing."
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There is something so precious about watching your child day after day after day. I want to hold on to every moment, every smile, every single hug and kiss. I suppose it has to do with loving to be needed and needing to give love.
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James Patterson |
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No one is going to admit it to you, but we're all miracles out here, every last one of us.
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miracle
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Excuse me, sir, you got dog poop on your shoe.
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James Patterson |
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If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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James Patterson |
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off the bed to the left and run for the
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James Patterson |
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Here's something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down I-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car, you might get stopped. Just FYI. In
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Have you ever done something extremely stupid like, oh, I don't know, try to make a room filled with total strangers laugh until their sides hurt? Totally
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It's a common enough psych term," I told him. "All of us shrinks talk about VFC when we get together. Very fucking crazy, Gerry."
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The Gasman leaned over and examined the tangled pile of stereo guts spread out on the kitchen table. "It looks like a robot came in here and threw up," he observed"
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James Patterson |
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when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life doing something, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
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James Patterson |
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Three out of four voices inside my head say go for it.
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James Patterson |
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Your brothers have set off a stink bomb in the second-floor boys' lavatory,
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James Patterson |
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If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.
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life-and-living
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wanted that to be my bedroom," he says. "It'd be so easy to sneak out at night to TP yards, egg cars, and punch people." Yes, Stevie has an active social life."
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Wasn't this great?" Nudge asked excitedly. "I can't believe we're in the White House! I want to be president someday." "I'll be vice president," the Gasman offered. "You guys would be great," I said politely. Yes, they could run on the Mutant Party ticket, with a freak-of-nature platform. No prob. I'm sure America is ready for that."
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Then right before my eyes, she flew. She actually flew like a bird. No, she flew as a young girl might fly, or a woman or a man, if people were meant to fly. She soared through the air. And that changed the course of my life forever.
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one father is better than 100 head masters
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Father Alfred D'Souza. D'Souza had written: "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."
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James Patterson |
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Justine pulled her Jag over to the side of the road and stared out at the landscape. I twirled the dial on her police band radio until the signal was clear. She opened her thermos, passed it over to me. I took a sip. The coffee was black, unsugared. That's the way Justine liked just about everything: straight up, no bullshit.
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James Patterson |
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Then the doctor broke my nose and I cried like a baby
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James Patterson |
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There comes a point in everybody's life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking you where you want to go, abruptly end.
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James Patterson |
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FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me--because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)"
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I know you might not believe this, but slogging through a foreign European forest in the dead of night with an ex-Eraser, a talking dog, and two kids who depend on you for their lives--well, not as much fun as you'd think. But
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