Patrick Ness Quotes

I weigh more than a mountain but less than a feather.

"TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back -
"I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead."
"Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd."

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

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

Manchee comes outta the bushes and sits down next to me cuz I’ve stopped right there in the middle of a trail. He looks around to see what I might be seeing and then he says, ”Good poo, Todd.”
”I’m sure it was, Manchee.”
I’d better not get another ruddy dog when my birthday comes. What I want this year is a hunting knife like the one Ben carries on the back of his belt. Now that’s a present for a man.
“Poo,” Manchee’s says quietly.

We are the choices we make.

"Conor looked down at his hands, finally unclenching them. "Because what I thought was so wrong."

It was not wrong, the monster said, It was only a thought, one of a million. It was not an action."

go in swinging

To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it,

I just want the world to make sense now and then, is that so wrong?

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

"Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting."
"No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't."
"I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head."

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

"You got lost on your journey somewhere." "That's what everyone says who never bothered to go on a journey in the first place."