Patrick Ness Quotes
Patrick Ness Quotes
It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength.
1467 ... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
4481 We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.
4370 We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
3716 Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.
2787 You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
1808 Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
3354 You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
2939 You won't," says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd."
He pushes Viola forward again -
She calls out from the pain of it -
Viola, I think -
Viola -
I grit my teeth and raise the rifle -
I cock it -
And I say what's true -
"I would kill to save her," I say.
1381 And then his noise falls completely silent-
And he stops struggling-
And looking right into my eyes-
He dies.
My Todd dies.
2861 Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
4788 I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
3552 Who cares even if I didn't?!" Conor shouted back. "They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary. Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!"
The monster looked at him quizzically. How strange, it said. The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seems to suggest otherwise.
4716 And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Haven.”
I smile, a little. “You said effing,” I say. “You actually said the word effing.
1598 Ow, Todd? Ow?
1582 Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
4471 I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't
4479 Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
1087 Submit! Juliet's Joy screeches underneath him at no one in particular.
"I've got to get a new horse," the Mayor mutters.
3982 I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it."
[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]
1287 I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.
4303 War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
1213 This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.
2316 You said war should never be personal, but that’s all it’s ever been for me.
1503 Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.
4835 That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
3665 I don't think it's about making us fall. It's about how we get up again.
1913 HERE
It’s-
Can I say?
It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
2850 And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.
3291 And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it."
VIOLA
"Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.
4386 Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
4441 The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.
4971 So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
"Always," I say to him. "Every time.
2997 Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?
“No,” he said. “They’re the ones who are asking for too little.
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