Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Patrick Ness

Quote by Patrick Ness

“It was like looking into the most despairing kind of madness, a madness that only felt hurt and pain, a madness that therefore could only act in hurt and pain.”

Quote by Patrick Ness

Book:Snowscape
Create image

Work

Snowscape

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness

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. more

You May Also Like

“Feeling and talking through the pain--the humiliation of being an unloved child, the anger toward the cold mother, the anxiety of turning into her, the fear of maternal retribution for hating her--became the healing salve. Where therapy was successful, these women came to understand that their mothers, who were unfortunate, inadequate, insecure people, did not have the power to hurt them anymore. If their mothers continued to act destructively, they could walk away from them.”

HateRelationshipsHurtHealingPowerAbandonmentEstrangementMotherless Daughters
Book:Mothers and Daughters: Loving and Letting Go
Create image

“And then I yet again find myself standing before the very thing that has relentlessly pummeled me, staring through a bloodied brow realizing that my most heroic efforts have utterly failed to bring this thing to an ‘end.’ And at those most hopeless of moments where I stand before a monster I cannot slay, it would behoove me to finally accept the reality that the ‘beginning of the end’ is only possible when I ‘begin’ to surrender that thing to God and ‘end’ my feeble attempts to slay it on my own.”

GodChristianJesusHurtBibleSurrenderHeroicSubmissionBloodiedPummeled
Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
Create image