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Patrick Ness, born on October 17, 1971, is a renowned author from the United Kingdom. Known for his unique writing style and engaging narratives, Ness has made a significant impact in the realm of young adult literature. His works often delve into complex human relationships and emotional experiences, resonating with both young readers and literary critics.

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“Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Looks May Treasure Useless Maps Librarian Right Direction

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“...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423”

World Winning Dare

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

World Feels Ability Boys Information This World Numbness My Boys Overload Information Overload

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“I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?”

Knows World Believe May Enough Lasts Remember Lying Courses Born Died Towns Surprise Raised Noise Mess Sickness Crowded Swamps

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.”

“Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.”

Men World Want Lying Dangerous Lying Men Knowledge Is Dangerous

Author:Patrick Ness

“Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?”

World May Winning Dangerous Painful Dare Never Let Go Chaos Walking

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.”

Ifs Knows World Looks Know How Useless Librarian

Author:Patrick Ness

“I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.”

Thinking Men World Years Eye Months New World Twelve Be A Man

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“We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.”

World Trying Save The World

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“If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?”

Ifs World Want Ends End Of The World

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.”

World Light Black Ability Darkness Fire Cold Tools Cooks Warmth Engines New World New Life Delta

Author:Patrick Ness

“There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.”

Author:Patrick Ness

“The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.”

World Sometimes Hard Mother This World Green Wondrous Green Things

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“A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.”

World Made Book Where You Live

Author:Patrick Ness

“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.”

World Looks Might Waiting Reader Library Locals Wander Sat Public Library

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“Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."”

Ifs World Way Littles Said Sometimes Wonder Too Much Asking Asking Too Much

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“But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.”

World Life Hands Dies Choices Decision Cutting Knives Back Again Yes Or No Chaos Walking

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal”

World Honest Reader Teenager Loyal

Author:Patrick Ness

About the Author

Born: October 17, 1971
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Quotes: 332

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