Top 450 Patrick Ness Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Maybe hearts don’t ever stop breaking once broken.”

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302. “But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas.”

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303. “For who needs devils when you have men?”

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304. “He survives, does our Todd.”

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305. “I don’t think it’s about making us fall. It’s about how we get up again.”

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306. “You’d have thought so, but it was just a phase, wasn’t it? Nothing that churchgoing and pretending it never happened wouldn’t make go away.”

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307. “The Land looks deep inside itself to find the new Sky and there is no refusal for the one chosen. The past life is over and must be left behind, for the Land needs its Sky to watch over it and the Sky can have no other than the Land.”

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308. “Do all these things, but do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalized.”

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309. “Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.”

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310. “And that, the monster said, is not the truth at all.”

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311. “Now that I know there’s more? I want to have more. If there really is more to life, I want to live all of it. And why shouldn’t all of us? Don’t we deserve that?”

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312. “But I begin to wonder if doubt is better than the wrong knowledge.”

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313. “Will the world end in darkness because it is foretold? Or because there will be those who believe it so strongly they will make it so? In the fear that I always try to hide in my heart, I wonder if there is even a difference.”

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314. “There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall. And maybe it don’t hurt so much after all.”

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315. “There’s a quiet moment when my Noise fills the room with Manchee, just fills it with him, side to side, barking and barking and needing a poo and barking some more. And dying.”

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316. “It is a necessary difficulty that the Land must sometimes keep secrets from itself, the Sky shows as we walk. It is the only way to make hope possible.”

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317. “I just want the world to make sense now and then, is that so wrong?”

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318. “Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? How can a prince be a murderer and a saviour? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?”

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319. “These thoughts start coming. They come all uninvited, don’t they?”

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320. “Say you were standing on a hilltop with someone who had no Noise. Would it be like you were alone there? How would you share it? Would you want to? I mean, here we are, the girl and I, heading outta danger and into the unknown and there’s no Noise overlapping us, nothing to tell us what the other’s thinking. Is that how it’s sposed to be?”

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321. “People with really stiff morals are easier to tip over.”

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322. “Why did everyone no longer a teenager automatically dismiss any feeling you had then? Who cared if he’d grow out of it? That didn’t make it any less true in those painful and euphoric days when it was happening.”

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323. “Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.”

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324. “His mother shakes her head. “Everyone thinks they know what’s best. Everyone.” And then a voice behind him says, “Sometimes you need to find out that you don’t, though.”

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325. “Du schreibst die Geschichte deines Lebens nicht mit Worten, sagte das Monster. Du schreibst sie mit Taten. Es ist nicht wichtig, was du denkst. Wichtig ist nur, was du tust.”

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326. “She was reading a book on his pad, he saw, her strange attraction to the written words of his people still unabated, still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines on a page. It was a reduction, as she saw it, when expansion seemed so much more natural. And yet here she was again, spending time decoding a language not her own.”

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327. “I will never let go of this knife, no matter what she says, no matter how she says it. She.”

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328. “But fog does not stop the Land. We simply open our voices wider, passing the small steps in front of us along and along and along, each to each, until a whole picture of the march opens in front of us and our own limited physical sight in the fog becomes a single walking vision. The Land is not blind. The Land marches.”

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329. “I can’t stand it anymore!” he cried out as the fire raged around him. “I can’t stand knowing that she’ll go! I just want it to be over! I want it to be finished!” And.”

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330. “It does not matter what you think, the monster said, because you mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.”

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331. “Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzsche.”

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332. “I want a world where you can live and be happy.”

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333. “All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.”

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334. “When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?”

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335. “Salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.”

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336. “The sun’s well up now and the sky as blue as fresh meat.”

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337. “A woman my age, living alone,” she said, at least once a day, “if I don’t keep on top of things, who will?”

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338. “I wish I had 100 years. 100 years I could give to you” – A Monster Calls.”

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339. “He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power. When the lights of the universe went out one day, standing over the plug, having pulled it despite all warnings, would be a man like Deputy Kelby.”

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340. “A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes monsters of men. “Wrong,” says the Mayor. “It’s war that makes us men in the first place. Until there’s war, we are only children.”

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341. “I hold onto her and I think about redempshun.”

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342. “Quien dice que no es todo lo demas lo que es un sueno.”

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343. “Along the edge of this green lived a man. His name is not important, as no one ever used it. The villagers only ever called him the Apothecary.”

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344. “Sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.”

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345. “Yer alive,” he says, and he is so relieved, so happy, to see me in the middle of all that death where I am alone and alone and alone for ever, he is so happy that I vow to kill him -.”

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346. “I have had as many names as there are years to time itself! roared the monster. I am Herne the Hunter! I am Cernunnos! I am the eternal Green Man!”

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347. “Las historias no tienen siempre un final feliz.”

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348. “Just because the devil gave them the gift of speech doesn’t mean you’re talking to anything more than a mostly undomesticated predator.”

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349. “Raising his eyes to look directly into Linus’s face was maybe the scariest thing he’d had to do all day long, but it was only the free-falling terror that always accompanied hope.”

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350. “You told me, just now, just today, that you’d rather be dead than have to go through this much longer. I take that seriously. I don’t think your suffering is fake. I don’t think these feelings about wanting it to end are fake. I don’t think your self-hatred is fake. So why do you think it’s fake?”

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