Patrick Ness Quotes

But it's a tradition, as if that alone is reason enough. Slavery and buying your wife were traditions, too.

And then I hear the terrible, terrible scream that of course is the girl getting caught and that’s the choice made, ain’t it?

"You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious.
"No," I say, fuddling my noise. "You?"
Her eyebrows are up but she shakes her head. "No, No."
"But we're going anyway."
"Oh, yeah," Viola says. "Hell or high water."
"It'll probably be both," I say.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

More real, more there, like it's just the most incredible thing in the world that we're both still alive and I feel my chest get all funny and tight and I think, Here she is, right here, my Viola, she came for me, she's here-
And I find myself thinking how I want to take her hand again and never let it go, to feel the skin of it, the warmth of it, hold it tight against my own hand...

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

I want a campfire box.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

— Tu vida no la escribes con palabras — dijo el monstruo — . La escribes con acciones. Lo que piensas no es importante. Lo único importante es lo que haces.

We don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

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

I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME.

It's like a rule of life that yer automatically happier when you don't gotta worry about something.

My heart is broken, broken in a way that will never be healed, broken in a way that feels like it’s going to kill me, too, right here on this stupid, freezing beach