{"author":"Patrick Ness","author_id":"Patrick+Ness","total_quotes":119,"quotes":[{"text":"There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries.","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["inspirational","libraries","thoughtful"],"id":468,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"},{"text":"Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["alive","hurt"],"id":1551,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"},{"text":"You be as angry as you need to be,' she said. 'Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and. ","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["anger","motivational"],"id":2243,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"},{"text":"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?","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["chaos-walking","hope","patrick-ness","the-knife-of-never-letting-go"],"id":3450,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"},{"text":"War is like a monster,' he says, almost to himself. 'War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows.' He's looking at me now. 'And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["war"],"id":6128,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"},{"text":"We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["crazy","family","love"],"id":15888,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"},{"text":"It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["family","friendship"],"id":33556,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"},{"text":"Manchee comes outta the bushes and sits down next to me cuz I’ve stopped right there in the middle of a trail. He looks around to see what I might be seeing and then he says, ”Good poo, Todd.” ”I’m sure it was, Manch.","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["funny","manchee","poo"],"id":38871,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"},{"text":"You won't,' says the Mayor, smiling again. 'Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd.'He pushes Viola forward again -She calls out from the pain of it -Viola, I think - -I grit my teeth and raise the rifle -I cock it -And I say what's true -'I would kill to save her,' I say.","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["romance","strength"],"id":39921,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"},{"text":"Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["inspirational"],"id":40641,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":119,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}