Patrick NessI 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 m… ▶372LifeTimeTruth
Patrick NessThere ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Never Letting Go, Candlewick Press (MA)362Reading
Patrick NessWhen luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92362Death
Patrick NessI'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.373Politics
Patrick NessAnd 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 m… ▶351Time
Patrick NessThere's always beauty, if you know where to look.373Sadness
Patrick NessViola? 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.374Life
Patrick NessThe sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.374Life
Patrick NessStories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. ✨ The ultimate top 10 Patrick Ness quotes. www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2015.374Death
Patrick NessKnow yourself and go in swinging.352Reading
Patrick NessThis is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.342Humor
Patrick NessWe don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Never L… ▶331Life
Patrick NessStories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.331Reflection
Patrick NessReal 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.342Life
Patrick NessThere's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall. ~pg 426365Hope
Patrick NessViola 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. ✨ Patrick Ne… ▶376Thought
Patrick NessThe justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.332Life
Patrick NessBeing a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.354HumanityLove
Patrick NessThe 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… ▶377Life
Patrick NessThe 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’… ▶377Life
Patrick NessDo we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?344Reflection
Patrick NessWhereas 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? ✨ The Knife o… ▶322Reading
Patrick NessIt's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Never Letting Go, Candlewick Press (MA)377Humanity
Patrick NessMe and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.366Hope
Patrick NessI want a campfire box.366Reflection
Patrick NessStories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.344Truth
Patrick NessSchooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Never Letting Go, Candlewick Press (MA)356Life
Patrick NessMaybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Never Letting Go, Candlewick Press (MA)312Death
Patrick NessHer 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 fro… ▶301HumorReading
Patrick NessYou're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.334DeathLife
