""Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking."
I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening.
"I think the asking is whether we get back up again.""
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

"We are the choices we make."
— Patrick Ness

"To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for."
— Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer)

"In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed."
— Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer)

""You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious.
"No," I say, fuddling my noise. "You?"
Her eyebrows are up but she shakes her head. "No, No."
"But we're going anyway."
"Oh, yeah," Viola says. "Hell or high water."
"It'll probably be both," I say."
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

""War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too." ~pg 392 "
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

"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 (The Ask and the Answer)

""Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?" ~pg 11
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— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

" 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"
— Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer)

"I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time."
— Patrick Ness

""Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.""
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

""There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426"
— Patrick Ness

""Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53 "
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

""...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423 "
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

""When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92 "
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)