Quotes from Patrick Ness

Non sempre c'è un buono. Come non c'è sempre un cattivo. La maggior parte delle persone è una via di mezzo fra le due cose.

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 needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully.

Le cose della natura sono proprio sbalorditive, vero?" proseguì la madre. "Facciamo tanto per sbarazzarcene e poi alla fine sono proprio loro a salvarci.

E se nessuno ti vede, esisti davvero?

Desideravi solo la fine del dolore, disse il mostro. Il tuo dolore. La conclusione dell'isolamento in cui questo ti aveva rinchiuso. è il più umano fra tutti i desideri.

Crazy people don't need an explanayshun for nothing.

She shakes her head, fiercely. "You idiot! You stupid fucking IDIOT!" She don't say effing.

I'm listening." 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.

La mente crede a bugie confortanti, mentre conosce le dolorose verità che rendono necessarie quelle bugie. E la tua mente ti punisce per il fatto che credi contemporaneamente a entrambe le cose. [...] La vita non si scrive con le parole. Si scrive con le azioni. Quello che si pensa non conta. La sola cosa importante è ciò che si fa.

Why did you butt in when it was none of your business?

Que importaria la distancia si solo fuera un sueno

E lui capì che era giunto il momento. Capì che davvero non c'era ritorno. Che sarebbe accaduto, qualunque cosa potesse desiderare, qualunque cosa potesse provare. E sapeva anche che l'avrebbe superato. Sarebbe stato terribile. Sarebbe stato ben più che terribile. Ma sarebbe sopravvissuto.

His face is trying to look calm but everyone can hear how badly he don't wanna die, how childlike his wishes are sounding, how loud his newly uncured Noise is spilling out all over the place.

History ain't so important when yer just trying to survive," I say, spitting it out under my breath. "That's actually when it's most important," Hildy says,

Cómo es posible que los hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vean?

You just got days, it seemed to her. Where stuff happened or it didn't. Where planning just showed you what a fool you were to think you had any say over what your life would be.

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. It's– Wow.

Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

What do you do when your dreams are about to come true? No one ever tells you. They tell you to chase them, but what happens when you actually catch one?

Everyone thinks they know better. Everyone.

What happens when you get older? Do you just forget everything before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

That's for the Captain to know," Treasure snapped, and if my story makes her seem unpleasant and paranoid and a suck-up, that's because she was unpleasant and paranoid and a suck-up.

There Are No Ends, Only Changes.

There was a rustling through the monster's leaves, like the wind stirring them in a long, slow sigh. I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.