Quotes from Patrick Ness

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. Conor

The answer is that it does not matter what you think,' the monster said, 'because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times a day...Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

You looked like a half-literate moron in that letter, like an anti-intellectual jackanapes trying to stampede his way into power with all the finesse of a lovestruck buffalo.

Las historias son lo más salvaje de todo [...]. Las historias persiguen y muerden y cazan.

A world made of words, Seth thinks, where you live for a while.

We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us.

La destrucción es algo muy gratificante.

Histórias são criaturas selvagens', continuou o monstro. 'Quando você as liberta, como saber a devastação que elas podem causar?

And so he waited by himself, leaning against a stone wall away from the other kids as they squealed and laughed and looked at their phones as if nothing in the world was wrong, as if nothing in the whole entire universe could ever happen to them.

Las historias no tienen siempre un final feliz.

He could feel his throat choking again and his eyes watering. It wasn't the drowning of the nightmare, though. It was simpler, clearer. Still just as hard.

Las historias eran criaturas salvajes, muy salvajes, y salían disparadas en la dirección que menos esperabas.

Las historias son importantes [...]. Pueden ser más importantes que cualquier otra cosa. Si portan la verdad.

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.

Los humanos son animales complicados [...]. ¿Cómo puede una reina ser a la vez una bruja buena y una bruja mala? ¿Cómo puede un príncipe ser a la vez un asesino y un salvador? ¿Cómo puede un boticario tener un carácter del demonio pero ser recto en sus principios? ¿Cómo puede un párroco tener malos pensamientos y buen corazón? ¿Cómo es posible que hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vea?

Tu mente se creerá las mentiras piadosas pero conoce también las verdades que duelen y que hacen que esas mentiras sean necesarias. Y tu mente te castigará por creer ambas cosas.

You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all

I don't think your suffering is fake. I don't think these feelings about wanting it to end are fake. I don't think your self-hatred is fake. So why do you think it's fake?

The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary.

His Noise saying, No, no, not now, not NOW- And then he says, Viola? "I'm here, Todd," I say, my voice breaking, shouting with desperation. "I'm here!" And he says Voila? again- Asking it- Asking like he's not sure I'm there- And then his Noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.

You know. And if you don't know, you don't want to.

Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.

Roads is never the fastest way to get nowhere," the woman says. "Don't ye know that?