Quotes from Patrick Ness

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

Sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.

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 mean it, though! I didn't mean to let her go! And now it's for real! Now she's going to die and it's my fault! The Monster:And that is not the truth at all.

Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken.

Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

And love and care have all kinds of different faces, and within them, there's room for understanding, and for forgiveness, and for more.

And at first it's okay, you know, not perfect, but okay, and you get used to it. Then it gets a little worse, and you get used to that, too. Then one day, you wake up and you don't have the first freakin' clue how it got that bad.

You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

HELP!" I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out- No . No . It's empty. Viola's breathing heavy in my arms . And Haven is empty. I reach the middle of the square. I don't see nor hear a soul. I spin around again. "HELP!" I cry. But there's no one. Haven's completely empty. There ain't hope here after all.

Whatever the world looks like now. That's not always how it's going to look. There's more. There's always more.

His absence is so big it's like he's there.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.

I'm just a girl." "It is tragic how well you have been taught to say that with sadness rather than triumph.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it." VIOLA "Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.

Here is the hardest hit of all, O'Malley," Harry said. "Here is the very worst thing I can do to you." He held out his hand, as if asking for a handshake. He was asking for a handshake. Conor responded almost automatically, putting out his own hand and shaking Harry's before he even thought about what he was doing. They shook hands like two businessmen at the end of a meeting. "Goodbye, O'Malley," Harry said, looking into Conor's eyes. "I no longer see you.