Worst Case Quotes

“His girlfriend, Galina Nesser. My God, is she hot. A Russian goddess. And a physics major. See what I mean about Dan being a unique dude? I mean, how does a guy in a wheelchair score a quality piece of ass like that?”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“comforted him. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty through Christ our Lord, amen,” the sweet old man said. “Now pass the gravy!”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.’ The poem is called Ash Wednesday, by T. S. Eliot.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“MEMENTO HOMO, QUIA PULVIS ES, ET IN PULVEREM REVERTERIS. “What is that? Latin?” Emily said. “It is,” I said, staring at it. “My Catholic high school’s preferred method of torture. Memento means ‘remember,’ I think. Pulvis is ‘dust.’” Cold numbed my back like a spinal tap as I suddenly realized its meaning. “‘Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return,”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“is doing, so that your alms may be in secret, and your Father who sees what is in secret will reward you.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“squad. Guess whose weekend this was?”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“A snatch of Nietzsche came to him, comforted him. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“The French actually coined a word for urban strollers, flâneurs, people who derive pleasure from observing the urban scene completely objectively and aesthetically.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“The calm from my shower and my visit with the kids lasted less than a New York minute as I scanned the pages of her notes. The latest victim was the youngest yet: a seventeen-year-old high school student named Mary Beth Haas.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“Unhealthy food and a healthy dose of road rage, I thought with an impressed nod. My new partner was getting this New York cop thing down pretty fast.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“carving our way south through the chaos of midtown Manhattan dinner traffic.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“Jesse Acevedo, the Campus Security chief, seemed incapable of doing anything except shaking his head.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“At twenty-nine, he’d been the youngest to ever make partner. There was a time he’d wanted, and probably could have gotten, the name Mooney added to that sign.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“His law firm’s shining brass ERICSSON, WEYMOUTH AND ROTH sign greeted him outside the elevator on the sixty-first floor.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“Now pass the gravy!”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty through Christ our Lord, amen,” the sweet old man said.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“not to care. Teach us to sit still.’ The poem is called Ash Wednesday, by T. S. Eliot.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“Teach us to care and”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“means ‘remember,’ I think. Pulvis is ‘dust.’” Cold numbed my back like a spinal tap as I suddenly realized its meaning. “‘Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return,”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“MEMENTO HOMO, QUIA PULVIS ES, ET IN PULVEREM REVERTERIS. “What is that? Latin?” Emily said. “It is,” I said, staring at it. “My Catholic high school’s preferred method of torture. Memento”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“FBI special agent Emily Parker duck her copper-colored head as she hurried across the Enterprise parking lot on Route 46 in New Jersey.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“Everyone was in the living room. Seamus. The teens, the tweens, and the little ones, who were getting bigger and more expensive by the hour. Wall-to-wall people, laughing, fighting, gaming, watching TV. The mosh pit that was my home life.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“Emergency Service panel trucks, holding rifles and black telescope-like Geiger counters. He was supposed to get by them?”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“A snatch of Nietzsche came to him,”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“pleasure from observing the urban scene completely objectively and aesthetically.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“The French actually coined a word for urban strollers, flâneurs, people who derive”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“carving our way south through the chaos of midtown Manhattan dinner traffic. Unhealthy food and a healthy dose of road rage, I thought with an impressed nod. My new partner was getting this New York cop thing down pretty fast. The calm from my shower and my visit with the kids lasted less than a New York minute as I scanned the pages of her notes. The latest victim was the youngest yet: a seventeen-year-old high school student named Mary Beth Haas.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“The latest victim was the youngest yet:”
― James Patterson, Worst Case

“except shaking his head.”
― James Patterson, Worst Case