Quote

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

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
Half
Future
Awaits
Cure
Cures
Healing
Belief

More quotes by Patrick Ness

Image
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 choice
Patrick Ness
Image
We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
Patrick Ness
Image
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.
Patrick Ness
Image
So who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
Patrick Ness
Image
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
Patrick Ness
Image
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.
Patrick Ness
Image
You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
Patrick Ness
Image
There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
Patrick Ness
Image
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
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
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
Image
Stories don’t always have happy endings.
Patrick Ness
Image
Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
Patrick Ness
Image
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
Image
And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
Patrick Ness
Image
Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
Patrick Ness
Image
There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
Patrick Ness
Image
Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
Patrick Ness
Image
You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
Patrick Ness
Image
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