-
Faith with proof is no faith at all.
Patrick Ness -
I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.
Patrick Ness
-
You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
Patrick Ness -
Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
Patrick Ness -
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.
Patrick Ness -
I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
Patrick Ness -
Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
Patrick Ness -
But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.
Patrick Ness
-
If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
Patrick Ness -
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
Patrick Ness -
There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
Patrick Ness -
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
Patrick Ness -
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Patrick Ness -
She looks at me. She does. She.
Patrick Ness
-
They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians.
Patrick Ness -
... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
Patrick Ness -
I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.
Patrick Ness -
Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.
Patrick Ness -
And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.
Patrick Ness -
And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together.
Patrick Ness
-
He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
Patrick Ness -
"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?"
Patrick Ness -
You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.
Patrick Ness -
I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...
Patrick Ness