Patrick Ness Quotes - Page 4

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.

The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.

You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.

The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.

Things change, but they stay the same.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.

There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.

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.

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."