Patrick Ness Quotes

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)

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

That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

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.

I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

She looks at me. She does. She.

We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.

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

even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

A good idea always attracts other good ideas.

And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies.

His absence is so big it's like he's there.

Death is not the end.

You be as angry as you need to be, " she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and

And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Hav

Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken.

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

Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

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

But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

A peace that blacked yer eye, ' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. “The words of a sage, ” he says, “in the voice of a hick.

she is born in the breath of a cloud

The boy who refused to lose his soul.

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 insid

And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too much and my hands are on my head and I’m rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside of me.

I have had as many names as there are years to time itself! roared the monster. I am Herne the Hunter! I am Cernunnos! I am the eternal Green Man!

We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.

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

It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.

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

Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.

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.

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do wit

Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

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 t

Belief is half of healing.

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

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

He really is alone in whatever hell this is.Completely and utterly alone.'It isn't, ' he thinks, as he trudges back toward his house, 'the most unfamiliar feeling in the world.

I wish I had a hundred years, " she said, very quietly. "A hundred years I could give to you.

A man without a filter, is chaos walking