Patrick Ness Quotes

The devil tells the best stories.

But how are you this fine evening? - My arches are falling. - Isn't that the first line of a sonnet?

In her dreams, she flies.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

Things change, but they stay the same.

I'll find you
Keep calling for me, Viola
Cuz here I come.

You're never more alive than in battle."
"Never more dead after," I say.

I am very clever. I am sure and could figure it out and shazam! Tomasz saves the world again.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

And by being possessed, you possess, because that's how love works.

There's only one room on this planet for one side to be dominant, Todd.

A peace that blacked yer eye," I say. "A piece that split you lip.

I turn back to the man.
Back to Ben.
He is mine, I think. If there is peace, he is mine.
Mine to kill.

Haven't you ever felt like there has to be more? Like there's more out there somewhere, just beyond your grasp, if you could only get to it..

His grandma wouldn't be here when his father arrived. Which suited everyone.

Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.

This voice had a quality to it, a monstrous quality, wild and untamed.

Now that, said the monster, is how destruction is properly done.

We are the choices we make.

The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.

People ask for what they need in different ways. Sometimes by not even asking for it at all.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.

There's more than this, Sethy," Gudmund said. "This sucks beyond belief, but there's more. We just have to get there.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

There's always choices, pup, but from what I hear, ye made the right one.

I want a campfire box.

Because even the one you hate leaves an absence when they go.

No one wants to read an apologetic book.

I will never let go of this knife, no matter what she says, no matter how she says it. She

No," Seth says, firmly, "what I've learned is that there actually is more. There's you guys. You guys are my more.

If one of us falls, we all fall.

Life is always in the eyes.

This must be insanity. (But I'm as sane as anyone.)

War makes monsters out of men.

Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.

Oh, forget it," he says with feeling. "Nobody knows anything.

Know yourself, he thinks, as they sail past his house. And go in swinging.

Las historias son lo mas salvaje de todo

He could probably even guess what Harry would say next in that calm, amused voice of his that seemed to mimic every adult you never wanted to meet.

And love and care have all kinds of different faces, and within them, there's room for understanding, and for forgiveness, and for more.

No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

That was how the world worked, wasn't it? You set your sights on something, and life came along with a sucker punch.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

The world has always been hungry, though it often does not know what it hungers for.

Not everything is black and white. In fact, almost nothing is.

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.

The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said.

It's love. But it's a different kind,"
"Doesn't make it any less love, though.

The boy who refused to lose his soul.

Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too.

And maybe it takes a terrorist to fight a terrorist.

Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it's pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

Memory is stupid, ain't it?

He'd known Lily forever. Or for as long as he could remember, which was basically the same thing.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?"
"You closed the school and burnt all the books."
"Ah, so I did.

You talk like American television.

It feels like a threat. It feels like the world changing and leaving you behind.

but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.

The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.

Mrs. Mitchell, Henna greets, her voice three sizes smaller than a minute ago.

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't

Do you believe there's hope at the end?"
"No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact.
"I do," I say. Also a fact.

Everyone thinks they know better. Everyone.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together -

Poo" Manchee barks quielty to himself. "Poo, poo, poo."
"Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.

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.

It is not her you need saving from, it said.

Better the devil you know.
I wonder why the only choice is twixt two devils, tho.

You know that your truth, the one that you hide ... is the thing you are most afraid of.

The past always fails those who grasp at it.

I don't think it's about making us fall. It's about how we get up again.

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

I think I can forgive a kind lie.

How do you like them apples, you piece of shit?

I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME.

I wonder if realizing you're not sure about stuff is what makes you a grown up?

There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

And now it's time to hand the baton to you. Stories don't end with writer, however many started the race. So go. Run with it. Make trouble.

This is who you are, do you see? Tomasz continues.

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?"
"I hope not," I say

A book ... it's a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

When one falls we all fall.

What else do men think about except sex and enemies?

They want us a bit dumb and a bit afraid. Which for the most part, I think we are.

And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn.
A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.

But there are harder things than being invisible, it said.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully.

Whatever the world looks like now. That's not always how it's going to look. There's more. There's always more.

Sometimes the rumour of an army is just as effective as the army itself.