Quotes from Patrick Ness

No such thing as nothing. So it's gotta be a something, don't it?

We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

You're the thing that matters to me, Todd. Out of this whole planet, you're the only thing that matters.

And he also knew he was going to get through it. It would be terrible. It would be beyond terrible. But he'd survive.

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

The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?

No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

Without pain, it feels almost like I don't have a body at all, almost like I'm a ghost, sitting in a chair, blinded and eternal. Like I'm dead already. Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

He'd known Lily forever. Or for as long as he could remember, which was basically the same thing.

And then I hear the terrible, terrible scream that of course is the girl getting caught and that's the choice made, ain't it?

Little girls aren't naturally lost," Karen said, frowning as she scanned saucepans. "Someone makes them that way.

It does not matter what you think, your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. You do not write your life with words, you write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

But wherever I am, whatever this world is, I've just got to be sure I'm me and that's what's real...Know yourself and go in swinging. If it hurts when you hit it, it might be real, too.

It is not her you need saving from, it said.

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully.

People break, I guess. Everyone.

To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

I wonder if realizing you're not sure about stuff is what makes you a grown up?

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

Let the battle for peace commence

No lo entiendo. ¿Aquí quién es el bueno? —No siempre hay un bueno. Ni siempre hay un malo. Casi todo el mundo está en algún punto intermedio.