Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness
Patrick Nessis an American author, journalist and lecturer who moved to London at age of 28 and now holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth17 October 1971
CountryUnited States of America
Patrick Ness quotes about
lonely solitude age
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.
alive worst stills
He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
seeing i-can
Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.
forever always-alone
The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
numbers recipes slaughter
Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
stupid baffled dawn
It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!
worry people mind
People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
life thinking long
Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
boys drowning
Here is the boy, drowning.
know-yourself knows
Know yourself and go in swinging.
want said wells
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.
live-life cutting order
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.
calling cuz viola
I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
feels chaos-walking
And it feels like, finally.