I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on. Patrick Ness More Quotes by Patrick Ness More Quotes From Patrick Ness Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head. Patrick Ness cuzfingersmean If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean. Patrick Ness plansoceanwant TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd. Patrick Ness armspainnames Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters. Patrick Ness matterhere-i-am But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows. Patrick Ness knows And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun. Patrick Ness powerfulsoundsky I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again. Patrick Ness leavingheartpromise I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak. Patrick Ness smellclotheslying What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down. Patrick Ness messweakmen Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race. Patrick Ness endsracestories I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it. Patrick Ness shakeswantedlittles But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die. Patrick Ness diesthinking Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. Patrick Ness becomingmenyears Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too. Patrick Ness realhurtmight People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy. Patrick Ness crazylyingpeople Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word. Patrick Ness voicestarsmoon If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do. Patrick Ness crowdsfistsmen Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal Patrick Ness teenagerloyalworld "No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?" Patrick Ness armypeoplethinking Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised. Patrick Ness meritsavingsometimes
