110+ Patrick Ness Quotes On Education, Being And Imaginative

Patrick Ness is an English-American author of young adult fiction. He is best known for his Chaos Walking trilogy, as well as for his Carnegie Medal-winning novel, A Monster Calls. He has also written several other books, and has won numerous awards for his writing. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Patrick Ness on love, education, life.

Top 10 Patrick Ness Quotes

1. There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426
2. Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
3. Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
4. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
5. A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
6. I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
7. We are the choices we make.
8. In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
9. Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
10. Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Patrick Ness Short Quotes

• We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
• I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
• I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
• War makes monsters out of men.
• Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
• You went up a girl and came down a woman.
• You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
• Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
• Stories don’t always have happy endings.
• And it feels like, finally.

Patrick Ness Quotes About Love

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength. — Patrick Ness

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. — Patrick Ness

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact. — Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness Quotes About Life

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished. — Patrick Ness

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. — Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness Famous Quotes And Sayings

"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. — Patrick Ness

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? — Patrick Ness

...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. — Patrick Ness

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers. — Patrick Ness

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." — Patrick Ness

We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again. — Patrick Ness

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job. — Patrick Ness

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less — Patrick Ness

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it. — Patrick Ness

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. — Patrick Ness

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out. — Patrick Ness

Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53 — Patrick Ness

I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first. — Patrick Ness

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt? — Patrick Ness

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again. — Patrick Ness

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you. — Patrick Ness

Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed. — Patrick Ness

Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else. — Patrick Ness

"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?" — Patrick Ness

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. — Patrick Ness

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say. — Patrick Ness

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too. — Patrick Ness

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd. — Patrick Ness

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? — Patrick Ness

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. — Patrick Ness

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war. — Patrick Ness

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing. — Patrick Ness

Know yourself and go in swinging. — Patrick Ness

As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful. — Patrick Ness

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." — Patrick Ness

Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us? — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on. — Patrick Ness

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? — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative. — Patrick Ness

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go. — Patrick Ness

A thing worth learning is worth learning well. — Patrick Ness

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race. — Patrick Ness

Faith with proof is no faith at all. — Patrick Ness

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. — Patrick Ness

So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all. — Patrick Ness

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap? — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

Things change, but they stay the same. — Patrick Ness

There's always beauty, if you know where to look. — Patrick Ness

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between. — Patrick Ness

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? — Patrick Ness

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard? — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible. — Patrick Ness

And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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 true — Patrick Ness

...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423 — Patrick Ness

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not. — Patrick Ness

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

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. — Patrick Ness

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing. — Patrick Ness

She looks at me. She does. She. — Patrick Ness

Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving. — Patrick Ness

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise. — Patrick Ness

I want a campfire box. — Patrick Ness

Life Lessons by Patrick Ness

1. Patrick Ness teaches us that it is important to be brave and have the courage to face our fears and obstacles in life.
2. He also emphasizes the power of friendship and how it can help us overcome difficult times.
3. Lastly, he encourages us to be kind and compassionate to others and to never give up on our dreams.