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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked. “Yeah.” “When?” “Right away.” “How?” I persisted. “We look identical. She even had identical scars and scratches. She was wearing my clothes. How could you tell us apart?” He turned to me and grinned, making my world brighter. “She offered to cook breakfast.
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My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
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Fang, I said, my voice breaking. Just live, okay? Live and be okay. With no warning, I leaned down and kissed his mouth, just like that. Ow, he said, touching his split lip, then he and I stared at each other in shock.
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You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.
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Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.
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I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer.
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This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad.
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I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.
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Excellent. They were flammable.
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Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.
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I'm going to turn fifteen tomorrow, i said, warming to the idea. It's high time. I can't remember when i turned fourteen. (said by Max) If you get to be fifteen, then i get to be fifteen! Iggy sounded indignant. i looked at Fang. Wanna be fifteen? His smile melted me. Yeah.
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I love movies and I like a lot of good television. At the end of the project, I don't care if they changed [it from the book], I just want to look at it and go, I loved that. That really turned out well.
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Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?
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Yes, I sounded like a pathetic weenie. I prefer to think of it as showing my softer side.
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I vill destroy de snickers bar! Gazzy(The Gas Man)
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Tears were dripping onto my dress, but I wasn't making any sound. There was no sound to express thid kind of pain. I didn't want to move, didn't want to do anything. Fang was not waiting for me out in the living room. Tomorrow morning, when I woke up, Fang would still be gone.
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One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and 'Maximum Ride': There are a lot of adult readers. In fact, we released 'Maximum Ride' both as a paperback for kids and as a mass release for adults.
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What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?
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Max, you're acting like a child, the Voice said. You're above rebelling against your fate just to rebel. You've got a date with destiny. Don't be late. I brushed some hair out of my eyes. Is that a movie quote? Or is it an actual date? I don't remember destiny asking me. I never even gave destiny my phone number.
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So the first thing we're gonna do, I told him, is push you off the roof.
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