“The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always,… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“And now it's time to hand the baton to you. Stories don't end with writer, however many started the race. So go.… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“And now it’s time to hand the baton on to you. Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim.… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“I don't know," Gudmund said. "I really don't, Sethy. But we've got now, which is more than a lot of people have,… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“But the Spackle War was over a long time ago, wasn't it?” “Thirteen years now.” “Thirteen years where you could have righted… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Cuz when I held you for the first time this morning and fed you from my own body, I felt so much… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all. You… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Simone! Are you all right? Simone! " And a voice, grunting with pain, says, "Todd?" And- And it ain't Simone's voice. The… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry,” she said. “You guys have been through so much. It’s such an awful time to be giving you news like… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Did it matter? George thought perhaps it did, and not in terms of finding truth or of any hope of discovering what… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“ He was greedy and rude and bitter, but he was still a healer. The parson, though, what was he? He was… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true,… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“I hate myself. Almost all the time. I try not to tell anyone because I don’t want to burden them, but I… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“ The parson refused to believe the Apothecary could help, said the monster. When times were easy, the parson nearly destroyed the… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Yes", Kumiko said, seriously. "Exactly that. The extraordinary happens all the time. So much, we can't take it. Life and happiness and… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“This is not the way our story ends. You know this' - 'Stories do not end.' - 'Ah, you are right, but… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“I rub the ears of my dog, my stupid goddam ruddy great dog that I never wanted but who hung around anyway and who… — Patrick Ness Copy Share
“The Prince had fallen in love. She was only a farmer's daughter, but she was was beautiful, and also smart, as the daughters of… — Patrick Ness Copy Share
“ But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say… — Patrick Ness Copy Share
“And I feel her against me - And I think Viola - I think VIOLA! - I think VIOLA!!!! ” — Patrick Ness Copy Share
“But I'm still thinking about being born on a spaceship, an honest to badness spaceship. Growing up while flying along the stars, able to… — Patrick Ness Copy Share
“You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious. "No," I say, fuddling my noise. "You?" Her eyebrows are up but she… — Patrick Ness Copy Share
“I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you can control… — Patrick Ness Copy Share
To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for. — Patrick Ness Copy Share
Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The… — Patrick Ness Copy Share
“This was a kingdom. (“What?” Conor said, looking around his backyard. “Here?”) (The monster cocked its head at him curiously. You have not heard… — Patrick Ness Copy Share
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… — Patrick Ness Copy Share
