Patrick Ness Quotes

American-British novelist and children's writer

Patrick Ness FRSL (born 17 October 1971) is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter. Born in the United States, Ness moved to London and holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking (2008–2010) trilogy and A Monster Calls (2011). Ness won the annual Carnegie Medal in 2011 and in 2012, for Monsters of Men and A Monster Calls.
He is one of seven writers to win two Medals, and the second to win consecutively. He wrote the screenplay of the 2016 film adaptation of A Monster Calls, and was the creator and writer of the Doctor Who spin-off series Class.

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It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled
It's not a weakness-
It's your best strength-
...
I know it in my heart-
Right now-
Todd Hewitt-
There's nothing we can't do together-
And we're gonna win-

Whatever the world looks like now. That's not always how it's going to look. There's more. There's always more.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.

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

Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken.

I feel like I'm at the bottom of a well. I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot of light and I have to shout at the top of my lungs for anyone to hear me and even when I do, I say the wrong thing or they don't really listen or they're just humouring me.

Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?

Do all these things, but do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalized.

I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME.

He’d heard once that the only people who could effectively treat the trauma of surviving an airplane crash were other survivors of airplane crashes. You could only instinctively trust someone who had been there, who had seen it firsthand.

Let the battle for peace commence