“Not one fuckin thing gentlemanly about protecting whats yours. Looks like youre gonna lose it, you do everything you can to stop that from happening. Max looked back to Niles. And you didnt do that...”

“I looked to the ceiling and told God, God, next time I want an adventure, strike me with lightning. You have my permission.”

“I need a timeout do to deal with my timeout! that's how messed up I'm.”

“That top," he said when he dipped his face close, and I realized his voice sounded funny. It was intense but it was also hoarse like when we were fooling around and I understood why when he again s...”

“You should feel free to feel how you want and don't think of what people think.”

“How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I'd talked to ...”

“Let me rephrase. He took a seething step toward me. When it comes to you I dont like to share.”

“She nodded, grabbed her purse out of the drawer and skedaddled, walking like she was on a catwalk, one foot in front of the other, her ass swaying under the skirt of her expensive, tailored suit.Bi...”

“Not one fuckin thing gentlemanly about protecting whats yours. Looks like youre gonna lose it, you do everything you can to stop that from happening. Max looked back to Niles. And you didnt do that...”

“Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable. "Max?" "Yes?""Will you remember me?"His heart broke into a thousand pi...”

“The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school. Mos...”

“It seems rather prophetic. We were just joking about this the other day.""I know. Fate has annoying timing.”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extend...”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”