Patrick Ness Quotes

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.

Do we need distance to get close?

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

You want to attach emotionally.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.

This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.

Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

I want to be with you.

This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.