The author of several award-winning books, including The Chaos Walking Trilogy, A Monster Calls and More Than This, Patrick Ness has just revealed the cover of his next novel, The Rest of Us Just Live Here. Set to be published in August of this year, we can't wait to get our hands on the story about trying to live an ordinary life in a far from ordinary world. In an attempt to quench our excitement we have been back through Patrick Ness' other teen lit to pluck our ultimate 10 quotes from the Noise.
A Monster Calls
"'Stories don't always have happy endings.'
This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect."'
More Than This
"'There's always beauty,' Seth murmurs. 'If you know where to look.'"
The Ask and the Answer
'It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled
It's not a weakness-
It's your best strength-'
More Than This
'A book… it's a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.'
Monsters of Men
'To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.'
The Knife of Never Letting Go
"'I think maybe everybody falls,' I say.
'I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking.'
I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening.
'I think the asking is whether we get back up again.'"
The Knife of Never Letting Go
'War makes monsters out of men.'
The Ask and the Answer
'If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.'
The Knife of Never Letting Go
'We are the choices we make.'
The Knife of Never Letting Go
'The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say.
About anything.'
