"Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and bl… - Patrick Ness

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean

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

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

You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.