Patrick Ness
A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.Collection: Men
Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.Collection: Doe
People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.Collection: People
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Real
"Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.Collection: Animal
That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.Collection: Doe
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.Collection: Want
As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.Collection: Eye
Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.Collection: Lying
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.Collection: Boys
Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.Collection: Life
Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.Collection: Hands
Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.Collection: Fall
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.Collection: Book
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.Collection: Philosophy
Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.Collection: Dad
It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.Collection: Eye
We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.Collection: Choices
Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.Collection: Here I Am
But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.Collection: Life
So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time.Collection: Mean
Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.Collection: Seeing
Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.Collection: Hurt
The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.Collection: Fighting
There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.Collection: World
Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.Collection: Calling
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?Collection: Life
Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.Collection: Lying
A thing worth learning is worth learning well.Collection: Wells
Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?Collection: Winning
Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.Collection: Beach
The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it."Collection: Dog
Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.Collection: Girl
We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.Collection: Trying
Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.Collection: Eyebrows
That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.Collection: Jobs
You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything lessCollection: Wise
...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423Collection: Winning
No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.Collection: Believe
if one of us falls, we all fallCollection: Fall
Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.Collection: Stories
And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.Collection: Pain
Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyalCollection: Teenager
Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.Collection: Stars
And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.Collection: Song
"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?"Collection: Army
Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?Collection: Okay
And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it mostCollection: Men