I mean,he decided we'd be better apart,you know?it wasn't a joint decision.like, if your gonna make a decision about me and my life without consulting me,i'd better be dying and unconscious and you'd better be following carefully written instructions.

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

mind giving reality

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

James Patterson

hug sibling brother

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

motivational friendship life

Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.

James Patterson

mountain underestimate moving

Bad stuff happens.

James Patterson

ocean beautiful moving

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

James Patterson

stories writing trying

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

James Patterson

finding-someone love night

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

James Patterson

may helping might

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

James Patterson

best-things reading thinking

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

special-you memories life

Another day. Get up and face it.

James Patterson

another-day get-up faces

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 gotten 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.

James Patterson

inspiring inspirational life

Home is wherever we all are together.

James Patterson

together home

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

grief loss ideas

Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself

James Patterson

buttons pushing helping

The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

James Patterson

moving-on nice laughing

What are we but our stories?

James Patterson

stories

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

James Patterson

want diaries writing

Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.

James Patterson

dies dream sometimes

I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

James Patterson

compassion mean people