Quotes from Patrick Ness

Being the best gives you nowhere to go but down. It also makes you a target, for if someone else wants to be the best, they have to beat you, don't they?

Enfádate lo que tengas que enfadarte –dijo ella-. Que nadie te lo impida. Ni tu abuela, ni tu padre, nadie. Y si tienes que romper cosas, por Dios, hazlas añicos.

You can't redeem him, Todd," she says, a little softer but I flinch a bit at the word redeem. "You can't. Because he doesn't want it.

You think I tell you stories to teach you lessons? the monster said. You think I have come walking out of time and earth itself to teach you a lesson in niceness? It laughed louder and louder again, until the ground was shaking and it felt like the sky itself might tumble down.

Then he did it a bit more. "I don't understand. Who's the good guy here?" There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween.

Si dices la verdad –le susurró el monstruo al oído-, podrás enfrentarte a todo lo que venga.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you ave any of yerself left at all?

Oh, yeah?" Seth says, growing angry. "How did you die again? Freak accident falling down the stairs?

He walked on angrily to school. He blamed Lily because it was mostly her fault, wasn't it? He blamed Lily, because who else was there?

never got to meet Siobhan Dowd. I only know her the way that most of the rest of you will – through her superb books. Four electric young adult novels, two published in her lifetime, two after her too-early death. If

Life equals running and when we stop running, maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

When luck ain't with you, it's against you.

One night a whole storehouse of wheat was taken, so completely and successfully it's obvious now there's people in the town and the army who've been helping 'em. Which is bad news for the town and the army.

War is a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

Es mucho mas fácil ser objeto de amor que tener que llevar a cabo la complicada tarea de amar.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world keeps changing, whether I want it to or not.

Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them... Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.

Tam stands and they clear the table, taking the dishes into their kitchen and leaving me and Viola sitting there by ourselves.

war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appal you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning." "War makes monsters of men,

And maybe, Adam thought, maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken. Maybe they just keep on beating, until they're broken again, and then they keep on beating still.

A woman my age, living alone," she said, at least once a day, "if I don't keep on top of things, who will?

Remember," he says. "Hope.

Stories don't always have happy endings," ... Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Mais qu'est-ce qu'un rêve, Conor O'Malley ? dit le monstre en se penchant pour rapprocher son visage de celui du garçon. Qui peut dire que ce n'est pas tout le reste qui est un rêve ?