Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all. Patrick Ness More Quotes by Patrick Ness More Quotes From Patrick Ness 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 plans ocean want 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 arms pain names Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters. Patrick Ness matter here-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 powerful sound sky 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 leaving heart promise 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 smell clothes lying 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 mess weak men Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race. Patrick Ness ends race stories 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 shakes wanted littles But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die. Patrick Ness dies thinking Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. Patrick Ness becoming men years Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too. Patrick Ness real hurt might 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 crazy lying people 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 voice stars moon 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 crowds fists men Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal Patrick Ness teenager loyal world "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 army people thinking Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised. Patrick Ness merit saving sometimes Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do. Patrick Ness useless giving world
