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
war men monsters
War makes monsters out of men.
tragedy heard
Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
leadership hate people
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
stories hunts bites
Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
talking noise happened
That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.
monsters midnight
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
war hands doe
This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.
looks useless world
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. - on librarians
stupid dying littles
...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.
love strength weakness
It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.
order dawn excuse
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
fighting men life-is
To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
ocean missing
To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle
mistake made
It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them