Patrick Ness Quotes

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

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.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

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

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.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

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

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

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

I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.

...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.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

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

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

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

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

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

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

And it feels like, finally.

War makes monsters out of men.

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

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

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

if one of us falls, we all fall

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it."

Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

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

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

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.

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

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

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

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.

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

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.

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

Faith with proof is no faith at all.