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
men knowing forever
...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
mean eye forgiving
So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time.
thinking doubt remember
No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.
battle alive
You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.
looks useless world
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. - on librarians
men thinking might
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
war men monsters
War makes monsters out of men.
lying men want
Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
feels chaos-walking
And it feels like, finally.
girl chaos-walking
You went up a girl and came down a woman.
girl hair long
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.
calling cuz viola
I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
leadership hate people
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Except I didn't say eff