704 Quotes by Patrick Ness

Ma che cos'è un sogno, Conor O'Malley?Chi può dire che non sia un sogno tutto il resto?

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

-Sintiéndolo mucho, tendrás que venir. Sé que ella intenta protegerte, pero debes saber que cuando todo esto haya acabado, tendrás un hogar, muchachito. Con alguien que te querrá y cuidará de ti.

But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

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.

But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas. Almost before I could help it, Siobhan’s ideas were suggesting new ones to me, and I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story.

Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

If you hear what I say and still wish yourself there, wish yourself a hero, wish yourself a hunter, then either I have failed in my telling or you are a fool.

A memory is not the thing remembered