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
rivers knowing waiting
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.
saws invisible
Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.
bully annoyed one-day
Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.
morning stupid boys
Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.
doe looks look-at-me
She looks at me. She does. She.
luck
When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92
winning world dare
...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423
waterfalls bottom
There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426
healing half belief
Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
monsters destruction said
As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
fairs
Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
moving voice interesting
You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.
dog people problem
Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
war survivor clipboards
If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.