“ Your stomach isn't the boss of you,' Mel says evenly.'Oh,' Jared says, realizing. 'Sorry-'Mel shakes her head, brushing it off. 'Not what I meant. Your heart isn't the boss of you other. Thinks it is.… Patrick Ness
“ The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said. Patrick Ness
“ The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. Patrick Ness
“ There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. -… Patrick Ness
“ I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be insid Patrick Ness
“ Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you. Patrick Ness
“ There's a bunch od huge churchs clustered together, trying to blend in with all the family-themed restaurants, because salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess. Patrick Ness
“ There is a brightness on her face and she keeps urging me on with tilts of her head and smiles and I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but… Patrick Ness
“ If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean. Patrick Ness
“ 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. Patrick Ness
“ People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how… Patrick Ness
“ The indie kids, huh? You've got them at your school, too. That group with the cool-geek haircuts and the charity shop clothes and names from the fifties. Nice enough, never mean, but always the ones w… Patrick Ness
