Quotes from Patrick Ness

All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.

The Land looks deep inside itself to find the new Sky and there is no refusal for the one chosen. The past life is over and must be left behind, for the Land needs its Sky to watch over it and the Sky can have no other than the Land.

This planet is information' the Mayor says. 'All the time, never-ceasing. Information it wants to give you, information it wants to take from you to share with everyone else. And I think you can respond to that in two ways. You can control how much you give it, like you an I have done [...]' 'Or you can open yourself to it completely,; I say.

It is a necessary difficulty that the Land must sometimes keep secrets from itself, the Sky shows as we walk. It is the only way to make hope possible.

Here It's like the song of a family where everything's always all right, it's a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it's a song that'll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that's broken, it fixes.

Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind. Manchee

he would be coming as a religious fanatic, the most dangerous lunatic of all

There aren't any more treatments." "I'm sorry, son," his mum said, tears sneaking out of her eyes now, even though she kept up her smile. "I've never been more sorry about anything in my life." Conor

she is born in the breath of a cloud

People see stories everywhere...That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true.

She bleeds from under the band. 0001 bleeds red. (which I already knew)

Hope is terrifying, Viola," he said. "No one wants to admit it, but it is.

You could pretty much eat dinner off the glare she gives me. "I'll thank you not to talk to your elders that way, boy.

Salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.

She's always saying that being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day." She catches my eye. "Which is something I believe, too.

But you can't make war personal," I say, "or you'll never make the right decisions." "And if you didn't make personal decisions, you wouldn't be a person.

We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true.

Bitches,' Mr. Hammar says from atop his horse. 'Your analysis' was not asked for, Seargeant,' says the Mayor.

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything.

You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop.

when they were together like that, they had been their own private universe

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

Az élet csak rohanás. És ha egyszer megállunk, talán abból tudjuk majd, hogy vége.

The devil always outnumbers his foes," he said. "Even if he is alone.