Patrick Ness
The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.Collection: Sound
Don't deceive me. Never leave me.Collection: Deceiving
And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.Collection: One Day
If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?Collection: World
People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.Collection: Crazy
Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.Collection: Steps
The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.Collection: Forever
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.Collection: Littles
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.Collection: Crazy
Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."Collection: World
The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.Collection: Fire
So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.Collection: Thinking
But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.Collection: Knows
I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.Collection: Heart
I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak.Collection: Lying
TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.Collection: Pain
If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.Collection: War
I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.Collection: Wonder
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.Collection: Leadership
The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.Collection: Men
We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.Collection: Breaths
Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)Collection: Hills
A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.Collection: Knives
Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.Collection: Animal
Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.Collection: Bully
Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.Collection: Saws
Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.Collection: Healing
I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.Collection: Eye
HERE It’s- Can I say? 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.Collection: Song
A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.Collection: War
Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.Collection: Different
Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.Collection: Lying
As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.Collection: Monsters
War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.Collection: War
Know yourself and go in swinging.Collection: Know Yourself
Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.Collection: Men
Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.Collection: Numbers
The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.Collection: Mother
You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.Collection: Men
Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.Collection: Life
Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.Collection: Race
It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.Collection: Monsters
Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.Collection: Knowing
Things change, but they stay the same.Collection: Things Change
And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.Collection: Powerful
If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.Collection: Men
And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together -Collection: Heart
Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.Collection: Believe
Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.Collection: Mean