Quote

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

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
Battle
Dead
Alive
Never

More quotes by Patrick Ness

Image
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.
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
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
Image
Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
Patrick Ness
Image
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
Image
Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
Patrick Ness
Image
The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
Patrick Ness
Image
A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
Patrick Ness
Image
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.
Patrick Ness
Image
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.
Patrick Ness
Image
As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
Patrick Ness
Image
Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
Patrick Ness
Image
Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
Patrick Ness
Image
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
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
Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
Patrick Ness
Image
You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
Patrick Ness
Image
...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
Patrick Ness
Image
Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
Patrick Ness
Image
Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
Patrick Ness