Patrick Ness Quotes

She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja shoved him, grinning.

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

the point is that there are always answers.

So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary) Is this one of those questions that if I don’t answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik)

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

There are lots of questions which have to be answered.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

“Who are you?” One who has waited long for you to speak.

You plan to be a challenge, do you?" Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.