James Patterson Quotes

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

I love my kids beyond anything.

There is nothing more special than a love of a child, and I love the fact I am an auntie.

Sonny boy

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

My family is everything for me, they're so important - my wife and my son.

No father could ever be prouder of his son. I hold Charlie's accomplishments dearer than my own. He has been through so much and overcome so much more. Even if he weren't my son he'd still be my best friend.

Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just like you followed Roger; and that would be two lives gone for nothing, my life wasted like yours. No, we should spend our whole lifetimes together, good long busy lives, and if we can't spend them together, we... we'll have to spend them apart.

I miss you already I don’t need to leave. I can stay. . . . Mmmm.

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.

The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

My son is two weeks old today. The minute he came in my arms and looked at me it changed my life. Literally changed my life. When I say changed my life, I mean he showed me love I thought... I know... the word love, there is no way to describe this love. It's so powerful.

The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room saying, 'My parents just loved me too much.' The only thing you can do is love them and be around. Kids don't really care what your car is like or how big their house is. All they really care about is that you are around.

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

I'm always going to love my father.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

We grew up with so much love in our family.

There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.