I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live… — 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
Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423 — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it?… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,”… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid… — 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
