Quote

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

Patrick Ness

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Feel
Numbness
Feels
Overload
World
Rare
Indeed
Gift
Boys
Information
Ability

More quotes by Patrick Ness

Image
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
Image
I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
Patrick Ness
Image
I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
Patrick Ness
Image
Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
Patrick Ness
Image
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.
Patrick Ness
Image
Things change, but they stay the same.
Patrick Ness
Image
But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
Patrick Ness
Image
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.
Patrick Ness
Image
Know yourself and go in swinging.
Patrick Ness
Image
A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
Patrick Ness
Image
And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
Patrick Ness
Image
Stories don’t always have happy endings.
Patrick Ness
Image
Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
Patrick Ness
Image
Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
Patrick Ness
Image
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
Image
It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
Patrick Ness
Image
A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
Patrick Ness
Image
Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
Patrick Ness
Image
Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
Patrick Ness
Image
Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
Patrick Ness