Patrick Ness Book Quotations

I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.

I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

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