Grace > Grace's Quotes

“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?”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“When luck ain't with you, it's against you.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“And I know it -
I know it in my heart -
Right now -
Todd Hewitt -
There's nothing we can't do together -”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“Do you believe there's hope at the end?"
"No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?”
― Patrick Ness

“It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“He is sorry-
For everything-
For Prentisstown-
For Viola-
For Ben-
For every failure and every wrong-
For letting his pa down-
And he's looking up at me-
And he's begging me-
He's begging me-
Like I'm the only one who can forgive him-
Like it's only me who's got the power-
Todd?-
Please-
And all I can say is "Davy-"
And the fright and the terror in his Noise is too much-
It's too much-
And then it stops.
Davy slumps, eyes still open, eyes still staring back at me, eyes still asking (I swear) for me to forgive him.
And he lies there, still.
Davy Prentiss is dead.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“Life ain't fair.
It ain't.
Not never.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Usually when a man calls a woman a bitch," a voice calls over from a cart pulling up near us at the edge of camp,"its because she's doing something right.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.”

I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“Because even the one you hate leaves an absence when they go.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“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.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go