Maximum Ride Quotes

• I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day.

  James Patterson

  Decision, Leader, Chaos

  "Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel". Book by James Patterson, February 14, 2011.

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• I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

  James Patterson

  Selfish, Hero, Giving

  "Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel". Book by James Patterson, February 14, 2011.

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• Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Five, Ten

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• I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.

  James Patterson

  Girl, Rivers, Effort

  "Maximum Ride: Angel". Book by James Patterson, March 3, 2011.

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• Max-I'm not going to die today.

  James Patterson

  Max, Today, Dies

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• At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

  James Patterson

  Wall, Mind, Moments

  "Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever". Book by James Patterson, May 23, 2006.

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• Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

  James Patterson

  Lasts, Lists, Kind

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• Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!

  James Patterson

  Wings, Turns, Felt

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• Oh great. Yoda captured us.

  James Patterson

  Captured

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• Some kids get called "bundles of joy" or "slices of heaven" or "dreams come true." We got "the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments." Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.

  James Patterson

  Dream, Kids, Dna

  "Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel". Book by James Patterson, February 14, 2011.

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• Excuse me? I'm alive too.

  James Patterson

  Alive, Excuse, Excuse Me

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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• you're a diabolical little pyro, aren't you? He blushed modestly.

  James Patterson

  Littles, Diabolical

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• They call me, The Sharkalator

  James Patterson

  Call Me

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• Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

  James Patterson

  Life, Unrequited Love, Want Something

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.

  James Patterson

  Mean, Wings, Bars

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• De tall, dark vun--dere's nothing special about him at all," ter Borcht said dismissively of Fang, who hadn't moved since the doctor had come in. Well, he's a snappy dresser," I offered. One side of Fang's mouth quirked.

  James Patterson

  Dark, Doctors, Special

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• So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max

  James Patterson

  Girl, Eye, Hair

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• You stand out like a fart in a church.

  James Patterson

  Church, Fart, Standing Out

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• I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

  James Patterson

  Wells, Distress, Can Do

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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• "You were designed to be very smart, Max," she told me. "We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing." "And yet I still can't program my DVD player," I said.

  James Patterson

  Smart, Player, Dvds

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". May 29, 2007, May 29, 2007.

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• Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang

  James Patterson

  Tree, Initials, Picks

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• Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

  James Patterson

  Captains, Ships, Terror

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• They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. "Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned. "That can be his Indian name," I suggested.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Names, White

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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• "I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Long, Water

  "Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever". Book by James Patterson, May, 2006.

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• Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?

  James Patterson

  Soul, Max, Lasts

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