It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them Patrick Ness More Quotes by Patrick Ness More Quotes From Patrick Ness The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. Patrick Ness midnightmonsters 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. Patrick Ness live-lifecuttingorder And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies. Patrick Ness eyestrugglefall This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war. Patrick Ness doewarhands That's what librarians do. 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. Patrick Ness uselesslooksworld Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true Patrick Ness monstersmenthinking There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between. Patrick Ness good-guyguypeople Except I didn't say eff Patrick Ness Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. Patrick Ness hateleadershippeople I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come. Patrick Ness violacuzcalling Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side. Patrick Ness girlhairlong You went up a girl and came down a woman. Patrick Ness chaos-walkinggirl That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever. Patrick Ness happenednoisetalking ...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man. Patrick Ness knowingforevermen No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning. Patrick Ness survivoracceptingwar The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for. Patrick Ness fightinglife-ismen I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again. Patrick Ness askingfallthinking It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise. Patrick Ness cuzeyenoise I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be. Patrick Ness behindsknows And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true. Patrick Ness one-daysongpromise
