Private Quotes

“People Trust Me with their secrets, and I'm not sure why. It must be something in my face, probably my eyes.”
― James Patterson, Private

“Justine pulled her Jag over to the side of the road and stared out at the landscape. I twirled the dial on her police band radio until the signal was clear. She opened her thermos, passed it over to me. I took a sip. The coffee was black, unsugared. That's the way Justine liked just about everything: straight up, no bullshit.”
― James Patterson, Private

“You must have a theory,” Bobby said. “Here it is. The killer has multiple personality disorder.” Justine sighed. “And every one of his personalities is psychopathic.”
― James Patterson, Private

“all descriptions. Light. Dark. Some pretty.”
― James Patterson, Private

“Late-night phone calls are one of my least favorite things, Sci. Right behind having my tits in a mammogram sandwich.”
― James Patterson, Private

“She obviously liked her cosmetic surgery: green eyes stretched tight, Hollywood thin, pillowy breasts. I wondered if she could actually swim in her pool, or if those artificial flotation devices kept her bobbing at the surface.”
― James Patterson, Private

“You don’t have to explain. I made the arrangements into”
― James Patterson, Private

“usual nasal monotone. “The different profiles. How could a man who would set a girl on fire do it only once? How could that same person shoot someone from fifty yards away?” “What are you thinking, Sci?” “What if it’s more than one piece of shit? What if it’s more than one”
― James Patterson, Private

“Then we drove out past the sandy lots of stillborn subdivisions that had gone silent in ’08. Eventually, a gray wall appeared, blocking the view of the gated community from the street.”
― James Patterson, Private

“After separating the DNA from the substrate and copying the DNA in a thermal cycler, Sci ran the samples through an instrument the size and shape of an office copy machine, a method called capillary electrophoresis. In this procedure, the material was sent through a long pathway, a capillary, that separated the DNA with attached dye by size and electrical charge. The output would be displayed as an electrophoretogram, ready to be matched against the national DNA database.”
― James Patterson, Private

“He’s got good reason to worry,” said Del Rio. “Whoever killed Shelby got in and out of the house with the skill of a Beverly Hills proctologist. I’m looking into contract killers. I’ve got a couple of leads. We’re going to break this one, Jack.”
― James Patterson, Private