Patrick Ness Quotes

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  • It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

    Mistake   Made  
  • Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

  • Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

    Life   Thinking   Long  
  • 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.

    Mother   World   Green  
  • 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.

    Beach   Ocean   Moving  
  • Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

    Girl   Hair   Long  
    Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

  • You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

    Asking   Facts  
  • A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

  • Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

    Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

    Jobs   Book   Want  
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  • Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

    Lying   Men   World  
  • I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.

    Grief   Fall   Loss  
    Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

    Doe   Worst   Knows  
  • Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

  • Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

    Fall   Thinking   Voice  
  • 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.

    Life   Cutting   Hands  
    Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • Faith with proof is no faith at all.

    Proof  
  • No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

  • We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

    Crazy   Lying  
  • Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.

    Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • 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.

    Behinds   Knows  
    Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

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  • That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

    Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • 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.

    Song   Promise   One Day  
  • Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

    Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.

    Seeing   I Can  
  • 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.

    Mean   Eye   Forgiving  
  • There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

    Looks   Knows   Ifs  
  • I want a campfire box.

    Want   Boxes   Campfire  
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