Patrick Ness

“Close enough so I can see the smile, a smile I know full well, a smile that clubs, a smile that beats,…

— Patrick Ness

“Better the devil you know. I wonder why the only choice is twixt two devils, tho.”

— Patrick Ness

“Ow, Todd? Ow?”

— Patrick Ness

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

— Patrick Ness

Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still…

— Patrick Ness

“They’re just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary . Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!”

— Patrick Ness

“I can read it. I can read her. Cuz she’s thinking about how her own parents also came here with hope like…

— Patrick Ness

“But I will say also on yer first day that the attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you…

— Patrick Ness

“Cuz when I held you for the first time this morning and fed you from my own body, I felt so much…

— Patrick Ness

“Seth,” she says, “wherever you are, it’s okay. You can come back from it. Whatever happened to you down there, whatever the…

— Patrick Ness

Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

— Patrick Ness

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much…

— Patrick Ness

And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.

— Patrick Ness

I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.

— Patrick Ness

“But Jesus, people need, you know? I know that. They need things and they don't know why, they just need them.”

— Patrick Ness

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

— Patrick Ness

“ Now that, said the monster, is how destruction is properly done. ”

— Patrick Ness

“I don’t think your suffering is fake. I don’t think these feelings about wanting it to end are fake. I don’t think…

— Patrick Ness

“Conor O’Malley who wants to be punished,” Harry said, still stepping back, his eyes on Conor’s. “Conor O’Malley who needs to be…

— Patrick Ness

“Connor:I let her go. I could have held on but I let her go. The Monster:And that is the truth. Connor:I didn't…

— Patrick Ness

“It had just been a friendship, normal as anything. But then his mum's "little talk" had happened, and what came next was…

— Patrick Ness

“And by being possessed, you possess, because that's how love works.”

— Patrick Ness

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

— Patrick Ness

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

— Patrick Ness

“People ask for what they need in different ways. Sometimes by not even asking for it at all.”

— Patrick Ness