Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness

"And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud."
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"And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud."
Patrick Ness A Monster Calls
"Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth."
Patrick Ness A Monster Calls
"Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day."
Patrick Ness The Ask and the Answer
"“Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.”"
Patrick Ness The Ask and the Answer
"Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised."
Patrick Ness A Monster Calls
"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."
Patrick Ness The Ask and the Answer
"There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries"
Patrick Ness
"Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis."
Patrick Ness
"Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them."
Patrick Ness
"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."
Patrick Ness
"The indie kids, huh? You've got them at your school, too. That group with the cool-geek haircuts and the charity shop clothes and names from the fifties. Nice enough, never mean, but always the ones who end up being the Chosen One when the vampires come calling or when the alien queen needs the Source of All Light or something. They're too cool to ever, ever do anything like go to prom or listen to music other than jazz while reading poetry. They've always got some story going on that they're heroes of. The rest of us just have to live here, hovering around the edges, left out of it all, for the most part."
Patrick Ness
"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?"
Patrick Ness The Knife of Never Letting Go
"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."
Patrick Ness A Monster Calls
"If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean."
Patrick Ness
"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."
Patrick Ness
"There's a bunch od huge churchs clustered together, trying to blend in with all the family-themed restaurants, because salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess."
Patrick Ness
"Who am I? I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am the lungs that breathe the wind! I am the wolf that kills the stag, the hawk that kills the mouse, the spider that kills the fly! I am the stag, the mouse and the fly that are eaten! I am the snake of the world devouring its tail! I am everything untamed and untameable!"
Patrick Ness
"A man without a filter, is chaos walking"
Patrick Ness
"People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. "We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy."
Patrick Ness
"“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.”"
Patrick Ness A Monster Calls
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