Patrick Ness Quotes

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

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

"Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Things change, but they stay the same.

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

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.

It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.

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

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

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.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Except I didn't say eff

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most

What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.

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

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

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.

War makes monsters out of men.

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

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.

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

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

When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92

You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

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 hard.

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

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

She looks at me. She does. She.

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.

I want a campfire box.

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

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.

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.