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
army thinking people
"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?"
saving merit sometimes
Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
giving useless world
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.
stories monsters cheat
It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.
life cutting hands
But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.
asking world littles
Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."
crazy lying
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
lonely solitude age
It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
men fists crowds
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.
littles wanted shakes
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.
thinking dies
But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
writing thinking important
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
looks ifs knows
There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
men normal monsters
And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.