The Wide, Wide Sea Quotes

“Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?
“No,” he said. “They’re the ones who are asking for too little.”
― Patrick Ness, The Wide, Wide Sea

“We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.”
― Patrick Ness, The Wide, Wide Sea

“She was reading a book on his pad, he saw, her strange attraction to the written words of his people still unabated, still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines on a page. It was a reduction, as she saw it, when expansion seemed so much more natural. And yet here she was again, spending time decoding a language not her own.”
― Patrick Ness, The Wide, Wide Sea

“still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines on a page.”
― Patrick Ness, The Wide, Wide Sea

“still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines”
― Patrick Ness, The Wide, Wide Sea

“Her settlement, for example, were peaceable and as the calls to war had remained voluntary, they had held back, hoping it would pass. Nevertheless, they had cursed her for wanting to leave with him, telling her of the atrocities committed by his people out in the west. They had turned their backs on her in disgust when she told them he was a person, not a whole people.”
― Patrick Ness, The Wide, Wide Sea

“The fact that she was a young female with Noise was enough to stun him for a moment. Human women didn't have it, of course, something that had caused no end of difficulty, given how eager humans were to be outraged about difference.”
― Patrick Ness, The Wide, Wide Sea