The Rest of Us Just Live Here Quotes

“I hate myself so much I want to stick a knife in my heart.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“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, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“The wind picks up a little more (Terribly sorry, I imagine it saying; apparently, the wind is British, wondering how it got all the way over here)”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“I wonder if realizing you're not sure about stuff is what makes you a grown up?”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“A feeling may or may not be true, but you still feel it.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Feelings don't try to kill you,even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“I feel like I'm at the bottom of a well. I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot of light and I have to shout at the top of my lungs for anyone to hear me and even when I do, I say the wrong thing or they don't really listen or they're just humouring me.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“We stay watching the fire, which probably is just a fire, but we watch it together. Me and my friends. And there'll be a tomorrow, of course there will, when it all begins again, but right now is almost a kind of loop for me, something to feel on the inside of, but this time it's good. It's a loop with my friends that would even be a pretty damn good forever.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“You told me, just now, just today, that you'd rather be dead than have to go through this much longer. I take that seriously. I don't think your suffering is fake. I don’t think these feelings about wanting it to end are fake. I don’t think your self-hatred is fake. So why do you think it’s fake?”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“The Field isn't really much of a field, it's more like a property plot that someone never built on because they died or lost it in a divorce or something...”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Doesn’t a part of you think you’re making a big deal out of not very much? That if you were somehow not so weak, you could be happy and free just like everyone else?”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“What kind of person am I when seen by you?”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“No one can provide the heart it's own peace; you have to find it yourself.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“They want us a bit dumb and a bit afraid. Which for the most part, I think we are.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“And we dream the same in my town as you probably do in a city. We yearn the same, wish the same. We're just as screwed-up and brave and false and loyal and wrong and right as anyone else.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“You're helpless to the behaviour but the effort involved is just unbelievable.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“I hate myself. Almost all the time. I try not to tell anyone because I don’t want to burden them, but I feel like I’m falling farther and farther away from them. Like the well’s getting deeper and I’m running out of energy to climb it and any minute now, any second, it’s going to stop being worth even trying.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Most Gods don’t care. About anything. Other than gaining dominance over other Gods and telling you how wonderful they are and demanding that you say the same. There’s nothing like a bunch of Gods to show you how alone you really are.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“The rest of us just have to live here, hovering around the edges, left out of it all, for the most part.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“We share our craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Give him numbers, he’s great. Give him words and sentences to put together and his forehead creases down so you can see exactly what he’ll look like when he’s eighty.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Honestly. Adults. How do they live in the world? (Or maybe that is how they live in the world.)”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Jared exhales a long, long time. “Dude.” I just swallow. It’s loud in the silence. “I think it’s starting again.” “It’s probably just the pressure of everything,” Jared offers. “Finals, your massively unrequited love for Henna–” “Don’t say unrequited.” “. . . your massively invisible love for Henna . . .” I hit him on the arm. It’s friendly. More silence.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“gust of British wind tousles my hair. (Top of the morning! Oh, no, wait, that’s Irish.) It’s”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“It has nothing to do with not trusting you. It’s to do with what something becomes once you tell it. It’s like it’s truer. And it’s got a life of its own and it rushes out into the world and becomes something you can’t control.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“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, The Rest of Us Just Live Here