Patrick Ness Quotes

"A book, he thinks at one point, rubbing his eyes, tired from so much focused reading. It's a world all on its own, too. He looks at the cover again. A satyr playing pan pipes, far more innocent-looking than when it got up to in the story. A world made of words, Seth thinks, where you live for a while.

"And then it's over," he says."

"And still you make fun," Tomassz complains, "after I am saving your life. Again. So tell me please, your inntricate knowledge of Polish references. Yes, that would be most amusing. Long, long talk now about Polish language and the words Polish people use to feel in picturesque language."
"Where did you learn English? The 1950s?"

He's a woman.
He's a grown woman
He's a old woman.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

I hate myself. Almost all the time. I try not to tell anyone because I don’t want to burden them, but I feel like I’m falling farther and farther away from them. Like the well’s getting deeper and I’m running out of energy to climb it and any minute now, any second, it’s going to stop being worth even trying.

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.

It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.

"I'm just a girl."
"It is tragic how well you have been taught to say that with sadness rather than triumph."

What kind of person am I when seen by you?

And then his noise falls completely silent-

And he stops struggling-

And looking right into my eyes-

He dies.

My Todd dies.

Seth,” she says, “wherever you are, it’s okay. You can come back from it. Whatever happened to you down there, whatever the world looks like now, that’s not how it always looks. That’s not how it’s always going to look. There’s more. There’s always more. Whatever you see, wherever you are, we’re still here with you. Me and Tommy.

It'll make you look rugged,' Mel says.
'Because I woke up this morning,' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

Because even the one you hate leaves an absence when they go.

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.'
'And that's why you don't fight,'I say.
She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

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