A good idea always attracts other good ideas.

— Patrick Ness

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

— Patrick Ness

A man without a filter, is chaos walking

— Patrick Ness

And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back, and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that it been okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.

— Patrick Ness

And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over.“As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.”“Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me.“I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world.“Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.

— Patrick Ness

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.

— Patrick Ness

And I put my hand on her arm to stop her rowing. Aaron’s Noise roars up in red and black. The current takes us on.“I’m sorry!” I cry as the river takes us away, my words ragged things torn from me, my chest pulled so tight I can’t barely breathe. “I’m sorry, Match

— Patrick Ness

And I put my hand on her arm to stop her rowing. Aaron’s Noise roars up in red and black. The current takes us on.“I’m sorry!” I cry as the river takes us away, my words ragged things torn from me, my chest pulled so tight I can’t barely breathe. “I’m sorry, Matches!”?”“Matches!” I scream. Aaron brings his free hand towards my dog.“MATCHES!”?” And Aaron wrenches his arms and there’s a CRACK and a scream and a cut-off yelp that tears my heart in two forever and forever. And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too much, and my hands are on my head, and I’m rearing back, and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside of me.

— Patrick Ness

And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Had

— Patrick Ness

And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies. My Todd dies.

— Patrick Ness