Patrick Ness Quotes

To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.

You said war should never be personal, but that’s all it’s ever been for me.

"Because humans are complicated beasts," the monster said.

The world has always been hungry, though it often does not know what it hungers for.

He's seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right there in front of him. Billions and billions of stars. Billions and billions of worlds. All of them, all of those seemingly endless possibilities, not fictional, but real, out there, existing, right now. There is so much more out there than just the world he knows, so much more than his tiny Washington town, so much more than even London. Or England. Or hell, for that matter.

So much more that he'll never see. So much more that he'll never get to. So much that he can only glimpse enough of to know that it's forever beyond his reach.

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

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...

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

"It may cost you, my Queen. It may cost you dear."
"All the best journeys do, faun."

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

No one wanted to hear that people other than themselves might be complicated, that no one was ever just one thing, no history ever just one version.

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

It is not her you need saving from, it said.

If one of us falls, we all fall.

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