Patrick Ness Quotes

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.

I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

If you are still alive, then God is NOT finished with you!

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

I'm still alive, which is pretty cool.

If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran

Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.

Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.