Patrick Ness Quotes

Feelings don't try to kill you,even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it

~ Patrick Ness

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.

~ Patrick Ness

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

~ Patrick Ness

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

~ Patrick Ness

HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listenin

~ Patrick Ness

There's a bunch od huge churchs clustered together, trying to blend in with all the family-themed restaurants, because salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.

~ Patrick Ness

He's seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right there in front of him. Billions and billions of stars. Billions and billions of worlds. All of them, all of those seemingly endless possibilities, not fictional, but real, out there, existing, right now. There is so much more out there than just the world he knows, so much more than his tiny Washington town, so much more than even London. Or England. Or hell, for that matter.So much more that he'll never see. So much more that he'll never get to. So much that he can only glimpse enough of to know that it's forever beyond his reach.

~ Patrick Ness

We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.

~ Patrick Ness

Everybody was hoping for something, talking about our new life to come and all that they hoped from it. Fresh air, whatever that’s supposed to mean. Real gravity, instead of the fake kind that broke every now and then (even though no one over fifteen would admit that it was actually really fun when it did). All the wide open spaces we’d have, all the new people we’d meet when we woke them up, ignoring completely what happened to the original settlers, super- confident that we were so much better equipped that nothing bad could possibly happen to us.All this hope, and here I was, right at the very edge of it, looking out into the darkness, the first to see it coming, the first to greet it when we found out what it really looked like.

~ Patrick Ness

THERE IT IS,’ my mother says, and what she means is that the dot we’ve been nearing for weeks, the one that’s been growing into a larger dot with two smaller dots circling it, has now become even larger than that, growing from a dot to a disc, shining back the light from its sun, until you can see the blue of its oceans, the green of its forests, the white of its polar caps, a circle of colour against the black beyond.

~ Patrick Ness

If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

~ 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.

~ Patrick Ness

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

~ Patrick Ness

I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

~ Patrick Ness

As incredible as it seemed, time kept moving forward for the rest of the world.The rest of the world that wasn't waiting.

~ Patrick Ness

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

~ Patrick Ness

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

~ Patrick Ness

TODD! I shout again -And he looks at me -And I hear my name in his Noise -And I know it -I know it in my heart -Right now -Todd Hewitt -There's nothing we can't do toge

~ Patrick Ness

Spackle!” Manchee barks, tho he’s too chicken to attack now that I’ve held back. “Spackle! Spackle! Spackle!”“Shut up, Manchee,” I say.“Spack

~ Patrick Ness

The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said.

~ Patrick Ness

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

~ Patrick Ness

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

~ Patrick Ness

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

~ Patrick Ness

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

~ Patrick Ness

Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.

~ Patrick Ness