Patrick Ness Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
Patrick Ness quotes that inspire a great attitude towards life That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
1. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
The Ask and the Answer
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- humor,truth
2. His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still-See how he feels the skin of my hand against his, see how he wants to take it and press it against his mouth, how he wants to breathe in the smell of me and how beautiful I look to him, how strong after all that illness, and how he wants to just lightly touch my neck, just there, and how he wants to take me in his arms and-"Oh, God," he says, looking away suddenly. "Viola, I'm sorry, I didn't mean-"But I just put my hand to the back of his neck-And he says, "Viola-?"And I pull myself towards him-And I kiss him.And it feels like, finally.
Monsters of Men
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- love
3. 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.
The Ask and the Answer
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- love
4. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised.
A Monster Calls
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- truth,wisdom
5. 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.
The Ask and the Answer
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- Romance
6. That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- life lessons
7. Who cares even if I didn't?!" Conor shouted back. "They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary. Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!"The monster looked at him quizzically. How strange, it said. The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seems to suggest otherwise.
A Monster Calls
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- humor
8. You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
A Monster Calls
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- wisdom
9. You won't," says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd."He pushes Viola forward again -She calls out from the pain of it -Viola, I think -Viola -I grit my teeth and raise the rifle -I cock it -And I say what's true -"I would kill to save her," I say.
The Ask and the Answer
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- Romance
10. _Of course you are afraid_, the monster said, pushing him slowly forward. _And yet you will still do it._
A Monster Calls
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- hope
11. A good idea always attracts other good ideas.
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- inspiration
12. HELP!I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-No.No.It’s empty.Viola’s breathing heavy in my arms .And Haven is empty.I reach the middle of the square.I don’t see nor hear a soul.I spin around again.HELP! I cry.But there’s no one.Haven’s completely empty.There ain’t hope here after all.
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- hope
13. Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- hope
14. I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- hope
15. Of course you are afraid, the monster said, pushing him slowly forward. And yet you will still do it.
A Monster Calls
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- hope
16. You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard."He couldn't look at her. He just couldn't."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 know that it was 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. All right?" He still couldn't look at her. He couldn't raise his head, it felt so heavy. He was bent in two, like he was being torn right down through his middle.But he nodded.
A Monster Calls
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- motivational
17. You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
A Monster Calls
Author:- Patrick Ness
Category:- philosophy
