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Quotes About Courage

And he also knew he was going to get through it. It would be terrible. It would be beyond terrible. But he'd survive.
~ Patrick Ness
No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?
~ Patrick Ness
But wherever I am, whatever this world is, I've just got to be sure I'm me and that's what's real...Know yourself and go in swinging. If it hurts when you hit it, it might be real, too.
~ Patrick Ness
Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
~ Patrick Ness
It may cost you, my Queen. It may cost you dear." "All the best journeys do, faun.
~ Patrick Ness
It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled It's not a weakness- It's your best strength- ... I know it in my heart- Right now- Todd Hewitt- There's nothing we can't do together- And we're gonna win -
~ Patrick Ness
We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.
~ Patrick Ness
I want a campfire box.
~ Patrick Ness
There came a point when Harry stopped trying to fight back, when the blows from the monster were too strong, too many, too fast, when he began begging the monster to stop.
~ Patrick Ness
go in swinging
~ Patrick Ness
The boy who refused to lose his soul.
~ Patrick Ness
Finally, we come to the real thing, the thing that makes men men, the thing were born for, Todd. War.
~ Patrick Ness
I'd keep my eyes open, remember who I was, and go in swinging
~ Patrick Ness
They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary . Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!
~ Patrick Ness
How have you made it this far in life, George? How do you not get eaten alive by the world out there?
~ Patrick Ness
I think that maybe everybody falls" I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don´t think that´s the asking"... "I think the asking is whether we get back up again
~ Patrick Ness
It is now or never," said the yew tree. "You must speak the truth.
~ Patrick Ness
Raising his eyes to look directly into Linus's face was maybe the scariest thing he'd had to do all day long, but it was only the free-falling terror that always accompanied hope.
~ Patrick Ness
He survives, does our Todd.
~ Patrick Ness
I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
~ Patrick Ness
He readied himself to let go, to plunge in, to begin the swim out into the farther cold, out into the terrible, terrible freedom that awaited. He was here. He had made it this far. There was so very little distance left to go, and he was the one who had brought himself here. It was almost over. He was almost there. He had never, not once in his life, felt this powerful.
~ Patrick Ness
Why did the first settlers come?" Hildy asks me. "Why does anyone look for a new place to live?" "Cuz the place yer a-leaving ain't worth staying for," Tam says. "Cuz the place yer a-leaving is so bad ye gotta leave.
~ Patrick Ness
There are worse things that being invisible, the monster had said, and it was right.
~ Patrick Ness
We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
~ Patrick Ness