704 Quotes by Patrick Ness

...I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well give up.

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.

Nu îți scrii viața în cuvinte, zise monstrul. O scrii prin acțiunile pe care le faci. Ceea ce gândești nu e important. Numai ceea ce faci este cu adevărat important.

It is not my name, but the name I use for this story.A name, I hoped, that would be free of prophecy, free of the burden of a future placed upon it, free of any destiny that would tear it from my hands and destroy worlds.You think I overstate. You are wrong.

What's important is that I know how much you worry about shit. And what's also important is that I know a big part of your worry is that, no matter what group of friends you're in, no matter how long you've known them, you always assume you're the least-wanted person there. The one everyone else could do without.

-Las historias son importantes -dijo el monstruo-. Pueden ser más importantes que cualquier otra cosa. Si portan la verdad.

Who am I? I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am the lungs that breathe the wind! I am the wolf that kills the stag, the hawk that kills the mouse, the spider that kills the fly! I am the stag, the mouse and the fly that are eaten! I am the snake of the world devouring its tail! I am everything untamed and untameable!

Did it matter? George thought perhaps it did, and not in terms of finding truth or of any hope of discovering what really happened at any given moment. There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.

Les histoires sont des créatures sauvages. Quand tu les libères, qui sait ce qu'elles peuvent déclencher?