Patrick Ness Quotes: 20

• 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.

  A Monster Calls

• It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.It's not a weakness.It's your best strength.

  The Ask and the Answer

• Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

  A Monster Calls

• 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?

  The Knife of Never Letting Go

• 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.

  More Than This

• We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

  More Than This

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

  The Ask and the Answer

• 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.

  More Than This

• Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.

  The Rest of Us Just Live Here

• Ow, Todd? Ow?

  The Knife of Never Letting Go

• And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Haven.”I smile, a little. “You said effing,” I say. “You actually said the word effing.

  The Knife of Never Letting Go

• 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.

  The Ask and the Answer

• People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

  More Than This

• Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

  The Rest of Us Just Live Here

• And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies.

  Monsters of Men

• Who cares even if I didn't?!"Conor shouted back. "They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary. Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!"The monster looked at him quizzically. How strange, it said. The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seems to suggest otherwise.

  A Monster Calls

• HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-No.No.It’s empty.Viola’s breathing heavy in my arms .And Haven is empty.I reach the middle of the square.I don’t see nor hear a soul.I spin around again.“HELP!” I cry.But there’s no one.Haven’s completely empty.There ain’t hope here after all.

  The Knife of Never Letting Go

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

• Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

• I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

  The Knife of Never Letting Go