Patrick Ness Quotes

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

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

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

We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't that what you told me you did for each other?" I let go a few more tears but then I nod. "Over and over again.

Time goes on, even when yer not looking.