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
dog firsts needs
The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it.
hurt alive ifs
How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
chaos-walking
You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
mean firsts coming-back
I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
proof
Faith with proof is no faith at all.
perseverance fall get-back
It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
life hate needs
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
lying believe world
I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?
love strength weakness
It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.
order dawn excuse
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
winning world dare
...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423
luck
When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92
dangerous knowledge-is-dangerous
Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53
want towns beats
Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?" ~pg 11