Book of Quotes

Witch & Wizard

Witch & Wizard: Witch & Wizard by James Patterson

- "Welcome to your worst nightmare, or maybe one you can't even imagine. A world where everything has changed. There are no books, no movies, no music, no free speech. Everyone under eighteen is distrusted. You and your family could be taken away and imprisoned at any time. Your very being is expendable, even unwanted.

What world is this? Where could something like this have happened? That's hardly the point.

The point is that it DID happen. It's happening to us right now. And if you don't stop and pay attention, it could happen in your world next."

- "I'm supposed to be providing an introduction here, not the details of our public execution."

- "Whit could be about as clumsy as your average bear -- if your average bear were hopped-up on a case of Red Bull and full of himself because he could bench-press 275 and every girl in school thought he was the hunk of all hunks."

- "What are you doing in my freaking bedroom?"

- "This was really getting out of hand. Guns? Soldiers? In our house? In a free country? In the middle of the night? A school night ,even."

- "He had slicked back brown hair, perfectly combed, and cold hazel eyes. Like an iguana's."

- "'Did we just go back in time?' I squealed. 'Last I look this was the twenty-first century, not the seventeenth!'"

- "'It's blank,' he said, surprised.

'Yeah, like your social calendar,' said Whit."

- Oh, look at that, my little sister just turned herself into a human torch."

- "'The sooner you admit your secrets and tell us what we want to know, the better it will be for you and your freaky fire-breathing sister.'"

- "I used to think detention was kinda fun. A badge of honor, almost."

- "So it was official now: the world had gone totally crazy."

- "'Both of which are punishable by hanging . . . until dead.'"

- "Talk about a way to kill your faith in humanity."

- "I'm psychotic! Everything that's just happened has been a clever collection of my own delusions."

- "I'm just psychotic, is all. No biggie."

- "You know life really sucks when you're desperately wishing to be institutionalized, drugged, or shocked back to reality."

- "Give me lobotomy of give me death!"

- "'As to this room's amenities, please note that your one external window has a western exposure, though which you can see the blackness of a ten-story deep ventilation shaft, the bottom of which is fitted with a turbine that could grind a blue whale into mush in less than ten seconds. Feel free to throw yourselves down it at any time.'"

- "Maybe you are a wizard. Maybe I am a witch."

- "I thought that if he looked at me long enough, the blood would start to freeze in my veins."

- "The Visitor's icy eyes narrowed, and he stepped closer until I could faintly smell mothballs and hair syrup."

- "'They murdered me. They said . . . it was because of you and your sister. It happened at the Hospital, Whit. The New Order and The One Who Is The One -- he's behind this. He's so awful, so powerful.'"

- "Life, as the wiser-than-you-might-think saying goes, is too short."

- "'I trust you're enjoying your stay at the Hospital?'

'Fantastic!' I said -- couldn't resist. 'Five stars.'"

- "'The Visitor?!' I said. 'You've got nothing to fear there -- trust me, he's a loyal and worth sadist.'"

- "You're a lowly, miserable cock-a-roach, I thought."

- "Byron Snotty Traitor Suck-up Quisling Hall Monitor Swain."

- "'Or I'll tell the Matron to stun-gun you till you have no more attitude than a head of lettuce.'"

- "At least I knew I wouldn't want him condemned to death. Torture, sure -- but not death."

- "'You probably sold you soul for your demonic powers.'"

- "'Oh my God, Whit,' Wisty said. 'Now I'm seeing fairies.'"

- "I'm not sure we'll be able to get back out. You could be there forever."

- "Somehow, some way, I wanted to bring Celia back from the dead for Whit."

- "'I'll be right there behind you. Of course, I'm biteproof.'"

- "'Unless they're secretly Curves. If they're Straight and Narrows, they'll just hit the wall. It could be kind of funny, actually.'"

- "We were going to, like, 'cross over' to the other side now, right? Wasn't that sort of like dying?"

- "'Feffer? Meet Byron Traitor Suck-up. You may eat him.'"

- "Bracing, I could handle. Getting mauled by soul-eating shadow creatures, not so much."

- "And for that instant, that second, it was like everything was back to the way it was supposed to be, the kind of life I always thought I would have."

- "'On the one hand, we've been dragged away from our parents, imprisoned, starved, stun-gunned, denied all basic human rights and freedoms, yada yada yada. On the other hand, look! To my right! It's, like, bra wonderland!'"

- "I had to admit, I made a cute enough mouse, as far as mice go."

- "It would not be cool to barf in my brother's trousers."

- "(I figured all CAPS and italics had to work.)"

- "Here she was, emaciated and oppressed to the brink of death -- a veritable Michael Clancy -- and yet she had the strength to comfort me. She has the strength to hope."

- "The Flame Girl Strikes Back."

- "They're afraid of change, and we must change.

They're afraid of the young, and we are the young.

They're afraid of music, and music is our life.

They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas.

They're most afraid of our magic."

- "And then she fainted again.

Yeah, my sister's weird.

Mostly in a good way."

- Listen, please: seize the moment, however worried you may be about what's coming next. It's your brain, it's your life, it's your attitude . . . . Go out there and fill up with sights, sounds, and ideas that are bigger than yourself. We all know from history -- to say nothing of this current reality -- what can happen if we stay quiet and just do what's put in front of us."

A/N: This book will no longer always be updated on Mondays.  It will be updated whenever I finish a book that is not already in this book.  I'm doing this because I'm going to start going back and rereading some of the books that I have quotes listed for because I miss the characters. ~ Alexis