Step on a Crack Quotes

“Don't you just hate it when you go to a friend's funeral and you get kidnapped?”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“When it rains cats, it pours kittens too,”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“whenever Maeve would mention another foster case or needy child she’d heard about and say, “What’s another pound on an elephant?”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“That’s when I realized she hadn’t really left for good. She’d just gone on ahead a little.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“I won’t lie to you. I can’t say why God would take her now. But if the fact that she was sent here among us doesn’t point toward a loving God, then I can’t help you.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“We Irish don’t always succeed, but we’re pretty decent at grinding it out.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“One thing Eileen had taught me by her example was that you get up and put your clothes on and do what you can do until the day you don’t get up.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“Trent and Shawna are African American; Ricky and Julia, Hispanic; and Jane is Korean.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“Bennett clan—Chrissy, three; Shawna, four; Trent, five; twins Fiona and Bridget, seven; Eddie, eight; Ricky, nine; Jane, ten; Brian, eleven; and Juliana, twelve—all dressed in their Sunday best and walking in size order behind me, could do the trick.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“Trent and Shawna are African American; Ricky and Julia, Hispanic; and Jane is Korean. My youngest’s favorite show is The Magic School Bus. When we brought home the DVD, she exclaimed, “Daddy,”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“Radios,”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“the Rockefeller”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“I won’t lie to you. I can’t say why God would take her now. But if the fact that she was sent here among us doesn’t point toward a loving God, then I can’t help you. If we bring away anything from today, it should be the lesson that Maeve herself showed with every full, spent day of her life. Hold back nothing. Leave nothing in the tank.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous book On Death and Dying. It described the stages in the death process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“Trent and Shawna are African American; Ricky and Julia, Hispanic; and Jane is Korean. My youngest’s favorite show is The Magic School Bus. When we brought home the DVD, she exclaimed, “Daddy, it’s a show about our family!”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“Bennett clan—Chrissy, three; Shawna, four; Trent, five; twins Fiona and Bridget, seven; Eddie, eight; Ricky, nine; Jane, ten; Brian, eleven; and Juliana, twelve—all”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“when I realized she hadn’t really left for good. She’d just gone on ahead a little.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“She’d given me Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous book On Death and Dying. It described the stages in the death process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“Remember when you changed me forever,” I whispered in Maeve’s ear.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“Remember when that huge, homeless, toothless man you brought in hugged you?” Maeve said with a hard laugh. “What did he say? ‘You ain’t like those other jive turkeys, man. You care.’” “No,” I said, laughing with her now. “He said, ‘Man, you’re the nicest damn honky I ever met.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“ESU lieutenant Steve Reno has the tactical lead. Commander Will Matthews, our team commander, has the final word.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“Paul Martelli. Crisis Negotiation Unit. The special agent in charge sent us up from Twenty-six Fed to give you guys a hand if we can.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“It’s done, Julio,” he said. “She’s dead. Now get the hell out of there. You killed Caroline Hopkins. Congratulations.”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack

“We Irish don't always succeed, but we're pretty decent at grinding it out.”
― James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, Step on a Crack

“stopped before high,”
― James Patterson, Step on a Crack