Quote

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

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
Endings
Happy
Stories
Always

More quotes by Patrick Ness

Image
Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
Patrick Ness
Image
Except I didn't say eff
Patrick Ness
Image
You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
Patrick Ness
Image
...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
Image
Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
Patrick Ness
Image
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Patrick Ness
Image
Faith with proof is no faith at all.
Patrick Ness
Image
Know yourself and go in swinging.
Patrick Ness
Image
Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
Patrick Ness
Image
And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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
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
We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
Patrick Ness
Image
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
Image
... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
Patrick Ness
Image
So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
Patrick Ness
Image
When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
Patrick Ness
Image
I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
Patrick Ness
Image
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
Patrick Ness
Image
It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
Patrick Ness