Patrick Ness Quotes

if one of us falls, we all fall

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

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.

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

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

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?)

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

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

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

So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

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

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

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?

If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

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'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.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

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

There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

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 me. And i fall back into it.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423

Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.

As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and fall asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

We are the choices we make.