Tick Tock Quotes

“Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“I LOOKED DOWN the barrel of my Glock 19 service weapon. Lori Armstrong, a tall detective with long blond hair from the Forty-Third precinct, stood across from me. Hector Nunez, a crimes and missing-persons detective, who looked like he should play linebacker for the Jets, was about to knock on the door.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“root of the principle of sufficient reason,” I said. “Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Who was she kidding? she thought as she hauled Eddie up and sent him scurrying ahead of her along the forest path. She”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“perfect as a freshly tucked-in sheet. Only for a moment. Two geese floating by the near shore of the lake took frantic, honking flight as a large projectile landed in the water beside them with a tremendous, booming slap.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Go give your Da a kiss,” Seamus instructed my kids. And incredibly, somehow, all at the same time, that’s exactly what they did.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Off to the right, the flat lake and majestic foothills of the Catskill Mountains glowed in the soft morning light like a priceless Hudson River School landscape come to life. Mary Catherine stood for a moment, mesmerized by the exhilarating vista, the distant golden hills, the mile-long expanse of silvery blue water, smooth and”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“ORANGE LAKE, NEW YORK SIXTY MILES NORTH OF NEW YORK CITY STARTING TO GASP AS she climbed the increasingly steep slope of the tangled hiking trail, Mary Catherine was about to take a breather when the tree line opened. Glancing out over the open ridge, she immediately halted in her tracks, as what was left of her breath was suddenly taken.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“page.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Pascal said that the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason,” I said. “Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“At the age of six, I wanted to be a cook. At seven, I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Like Oscar Wilde said, “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best,” he thought.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Tom McGinnis, or McGirth, as he was more casually known due to his not-so-girlish figure, was the department’s chief of detectives, Miriam’s boss and perhaps the most egregious power-hungry ballbuster in the NYPD.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Prologue SEXY BEAST One LIKE THE LUXURY CO-OPS and five-star French eateries located in Manhattan’s Silk”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“said that the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Pascal”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Schopenhauer?”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason,”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“The Black Velvet Band,”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Nos voeux de bonheur profonds et sincères. Beaucoup d’amour et une santé de fer. Un joyeux anniversaire!”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Ivar Tengbom”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Nordic Classicism.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Even Michelangelo, when painting the Sistine Chapel, built the scaffolds himself and mixed his own paint.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Salvador Dali’s devastating Basket of Bread, the masterpiece that he painted just before being expelled from Madrid’s Academia”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Oscar Wilde said, “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best,” he thought.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“Co-op City.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“WAY PAST ALL OUR BEDTIMES and loving it, the kids and I were soaked to the skin and shivering around the bonfire. I heard Seamus clear his throat to tell one of his famous ghost stories. I remembered them from when I was a kid. Run-of-the-mill ghost stories were for pansies. Seamus’s tales were H. P. Lovecraft–inspired yarns about fish creatures so horrifying, just the sight of them made people go insane. I mean, anyone can scare a little child. Few can introduce them to cosmic horror.”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock

“the rookie at the barricade at around forty. There”
― James Patterson, Tick Tock