To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap? — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“It's like a rule of life that yer automatically happier when you don't gotta worry about something.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Now that I know there’s more? I want to have more. If there really is more to life, I want to live… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Life does not have to go how you think it will,” Tomasz says. “Not even when you are very sure what is… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
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,… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say.… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Everybody was hoping for something, talking about our new life to come and all that they hoped from it. Fresh air, whatever… — 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
Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,”… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“That was how the world worked, wasn't it? You set your sights on something, and life came along with a sucker punch.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“How have you made it this far in life, George? How do you not get eaten alive by the world out there?” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Are you serious? Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it.… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“No, life didn't always go how you thought it might. Sometimes it didn't make any sense at all. You've just got to… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Everyone here is someone’s daughter,” she says quietly. “Every soldier out there is someone’s son. The only crime, the only crime is… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“She turns to me sharply. “To live _is_ to fight,” she snaps. “To preserve life is to fight _everything_ that man stands… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“And still you make fun," Tomassz complains, "after I am saving your life. Again. So tell me please, your inntricate knowledge of… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
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… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“It just felt like she'd been born with a small flaw, right at the centre of herself, a flaw somehow too shameful… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“ 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 Image
“And I feel her against me - And I think Viola - I think VIOLA! - I think VIOLA!!!! ” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
