Patrick Ness Quotes - Page 5

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53

And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.

And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.

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

Except I didn't say eff

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.

Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.

I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.

There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

Time goes on, even when yer not looking.

...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.

I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.