Patrick Ness Quotes

"Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running."

And then his noise falls completely silent-

And he stops struggling-

And looking right into my eyes-

He dies.

My Todd dies.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Death is not the end.

"I look at the knife-
Resting in a puddle of water-
Near the ledge by the pulpit behind Aaron-
Where I dropped it-
And I hear it calling to me-
Take me, it says-
Take me and use me, it says-
Aaron hold open his arms.
"Murder me," he says. "Become a man."
Never let me go says the knife"

"I don't think so," the Mayor buzzes -
And my feet stop running -
But then I pick up one -
And then the other -
And I'm running for it again -
I hear the Mayor laugh behind me. "Well done," he says.

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now.
But he was further away than ever.

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.

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.

There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than the story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.

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

That’s another thing about Noise. Everything that’s ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.

Even though it walked and talked, even though it was bigger than his house and could swallow him in one bite, the monster was still, at the end of the day, just a yew tree.

"This is who you are, do you see?" Tomasz continues.

Here I am.
Here we are.
Here we go.
Here is all that matters.