Belief is half of healing.

— Patrick Ness

Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.

— Patrick Ness

Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.

— Patrick Ness

But I don't care what you think, not about these things anyway. If you don't think they're real or important, or you think that we'll all grow out of this nonsense, well, that's not really my business. I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.

— Patrick Ness

But this, all this, isn't the story I'm trying to tell. This is all past. This is the part of your life where it gets taken over by other people's stories and there's nothing you can do about it except hold on tight and hope you're still alive at the end to take up your own story again. So that's what we did. Me, Mel, and Meredith all moved on, and we're the stories we're living now. Aren't we?

— Patrick Ness

But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

— Patrick Ness

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

— Patrick Ness

Choices may be unbelievably hard, but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

— Patrick Ness

Death is not the end.

— Patrick Ness

Did it matter? George thought perhaps it did, and not in terms of finding truth or of any hope of discovering what really happened at any given moment. There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.

— Patrick Ness