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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When luck ain't with you, it's against you.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.

Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

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

"You're never more alive than in battle."
"Never more dead after," I say.

"You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious.
"No," I say, fuddling my noise. "You?"
Her eyebrows are up but she shakes her head. "No, No."
"But we're going anyway."
"Oh, yeah," Viola says. "Hell or high water."
"It'll probably be both," I say.

"So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
"Always," I say to him. "Every time."

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.