Patrick Ness
And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.Collection: Mean
I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.Collection: Hands
I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.Collection: Years
Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.Collection: Girl
You went up a girl and came down a woman.Collection: Girl
And it feels like, finally.Collection: Feels
When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92Collection: Luck
Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53Collection: Dangerous
Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?Collection: Want
Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.Collection: Running
To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.Collection: Fighting
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.Collection: Order
To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress CoyleCollection: Ocean
How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?Collection: Hurt
You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.Collection: Chaos Walking
I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.Collection: Mean
I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?Collection: Lying
...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.Collection: Stupid
And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.Collection: Running
Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?Collection: Tragedy
War makes monsters out of men.Collection: War
even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choiceCollection: Obvious Things
Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.Collection: Morning
Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.Collection: Fairs
I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and fall asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.Collection: Dog
Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.Collection: Looks
She looks at me. She does. She.Collection: Doe
Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.Collection: Comforting
I want a campfire box.Collection: Want
Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.Collection: Fall
You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.Collection: Moving
Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.Collection: Dog
That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.Collection: Looks
War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.Collection: War
Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn’t expect.Collection: Stories
And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.Collection: Firsts
There ain’t nothing good that don’t got real bad waiting to follow it.Collection: Real