Patrick Ness
Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.Collection: Running
And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.Collection: Rivers
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
You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.Collection: Dad
We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.Collection: Fall
Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.Collection: Mother
Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.Collection: Saving
You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.Collection: Asking
Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.Collection: Giving
Here is the boy, drowning.Collection: Boys
But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.Collection: Thinking
It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.Collection: Lonely
There's always beauty, if you know where to look.Collection: Looks
We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.Collection: Running
I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.Collection: Fall
And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.Collection: Men
What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.Collection: Men
He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.Collection: Alive
It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.Collection: Nice
Stories don’t always have happy endings.Collection: Wild World
I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.Collection: Behinds
So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.Collection: Queens
No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.Collection: War
Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.Collection: Pain
Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.Collection: Running
I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.Collection: Grief
And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.Collection: Hurt
If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.Collection: Ocean
Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.Collection: Book
No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?Collection: Beautiful
Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.Collection: Easy
It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!Collection: Stupid
Time goes on, even when yer not looking.Collection: Goes On
There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.Collection: People
For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.Collection: Blood
Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.Collection: Long
I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.Collection: Creative
A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.Collection: Book
There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426Collection: Waterfalls
I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.Collection: Calling
Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's trueCollection: Men
This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.Collection: War
And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.Collection: Struggle
As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.Collection: Live Life
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.Collection: Monsters
That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.Collection: Talking
...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.Collection: Men
No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.Collection: Thinking
You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.Collection: Battle