Quotes from Patrick Ness, More Than This

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

I don't believe in guardian angels, " Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.

Oblivion is purgatorial and grey. He is passably conscious, not asleep but not quite awake either, as if disconnected from everything, unable to move or think or receive input, able to exist.