Burn Quotes

“I'm just a girl."
"It is tragic how well you have been taught to say that with sadness rather than triumph.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn: A YA Alternate History Fantasy About Dragons, Assassins, and Prophecy

“Sometimes you just have to feel bad about a thing. Sometimes that's the only thing that makes you human.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“Knowing the future is part of that future's past. Perhaps the foreseen happens because we try to change it.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“Sarah felt that any world that needed this many lessons must have something deeply wrong with it.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“The forest was white in the snowfall, but still seemed to hold more secrets than she had ever thought possible.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power. When the lights of the universe went out one day, standing over the plug, having pulled it despite all warnings, would be a man like Deputy Kelby.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“Faith is belief without proof.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“Faith is belief without proof," Malcom said. "It's a leap, an act of bravery. If I had proof, I would have no reason to Believe. I can't tell you how many times I've reaped benefit of that faith.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“So Malcolm stepped out of the trees and met Nelson, and the fate of billions was changed.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“Prophecy is slippery, dangerous, open to fatal misinterpretation.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“Just because the devil gave them the gift of speech doesn't mean you're talking to anything more than a mostly undomesticated predator.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“...he would be coming as a religious fanatic, the most dangerous lunatic of all”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“(Y)ou had to give people lots of room to be who they are if that's what you expect in return.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“Suspicion corroded...It would grow and take the things you loved with it.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“It's dangerous to grow accustomed to things...You find them harder and harder to discard with each passing day.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn

“You just got days, it seemed to her. Where stuff happened or it didn't. Where planning just showed you what a fool you were to think you had any say over what your life would be.”
― Patrick Ness, Burn