Patrick Ness Quotes

There's her silence, loud as a roar, pulling at me like the greatest sadness ever, like I want to take it and press myself into it and just disappear forever down into nothing.
What a relief that would feel like right now. What a blessed relief.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Four lines, and the world went quiet.

I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum, read the first line.
I miss being your friend, read the second.
Are you okay? read the third.
I see you, read the fourth, with the
I
underlined about a hundred times.

There wasn't anything more, and the one good thing that was mine wasn't mine after all.

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

Now that, said the monster, is how destruction is properly done.

Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully. And it took the lives of his daughters.

And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn.
A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.

The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

Sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.

But this, all this, isn't the story I'm trying to tell. This is all past. This is the part of your life where it gets taken over by other people's stories and there's nothing you can do about it except hold on tight and hope you're still alive at the end to take up your own story again. So that's what we did. Me, Mel, and Meredith all moved on, and we're the stories we're living now.
Aren't we?

"We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?"
"I hope not," I say

Sarah felt that any world that needed this many lessons must have something deeply wrong with it.