Alex Cross's Trial Quotes

“When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous.”
― James Patterson, Alex Cross's Trial

“The bigger the lies he pretended to tell, the more truthful the stories became.”
― James Patterson, Alex Cross's Trial

“laughed as hard as I did—harder sometimes. I kept sneaking glances at her: shoulders shaking, handkerchief pressed to her mouth. I was happy she was having such a good time. I was no author, no satirist, no raconteur, but I did know that the humor of this man Clemens was different. Besides being funny, every word he spoke was the absolute truth.”
― James Patterson, Alex Cross's Trial

“questions accompanied by that acrid gunpowdery”
― James Patterson, Alex Cross's Trial

“how much it was. She didn’t want to”
― James Patterson, Alex Cross's Trial

“For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”
― James Patterson, Alex Cross's Trial

“Nothing needs reforming,” he said by way of beginning, “so much as other people’s habits.”
― James Patterson, Alex Cross's Trial

“you niggers, is when you set in to tryin’ to think,” said Leander Purneau. He spoke in a friendly, jokey”
― James Patterson, Alex Cross's Trial