Stories Quote by Patrick Ness

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

— Patrick Ness

Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories…

— Patrick Ness

“I didn’t mean it,” Conor said. You did, the monster said, but you also did not. Conor sniffed and looked up to its face,…

— Patrick Ness

“ You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It…

— Patrick Ness

“What did he say?” Conor asked. He said enough to bring me walking, the monster said. I know injustice when I see it. ”

— Patrick Ness

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not…

— David Wroblewski

“ Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. ”

— Patrick Ness

“ I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you. ”

— Patrick Ness

“You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions.”

— Patrick Ness

“The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each…

— Patrick Ness

As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

— Patrick Ness

“Because humans are complicated beasts," the monster said.”

— Patrick Ness