Cat & Mouse Quotes

“Assume nothing, question everything.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“Don’t mistake the edge of a rut for the horizon.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“A FLAT, still sandy, still meadowy region… a superb range of ocean beach—miles and miles of it. The bright sun, the sparkling waves, the foam, the view—a sail here and there in the distance. Walt Whitman had written that”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“Joy—that’s the word. So easy to say, so hard to find in life sometimes.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“She gave us her best advice on aging: “If you can’t recall it, forget it.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Soneji”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“Death is nature’s way of saying “howdy.” Statues”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“said, ‘Good show.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“of life’s important connections and mysteries. I was hoping that maybe someday she would”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“Soneji”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“May his body rise to heaven, before the devil finds out he’s dead.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“Life was so much more beautiful and interesting through a target scope.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“never miss a good chance to shut up.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“Cats are like Baptists,” I whispered to her. “You know they raise hell, but you can’t ever catch them at it.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

“charred.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse