Quotes From "The Ask And The Answer" By Patrick Ness

It's not that you should never love something so much that 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. Patrick Ness

So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say." Always, " I say to him. "Every time. Patrick Ness

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. Patrick Ness

The boy who refused to lose his soul. Patrick Ness

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do wit Patrick Ness

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 t Patrick Ness

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt? Patrick Ness

And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. Patrick Ness

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

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains. Patrick Ness

TODD! " I shout again -And he looks at me -And I hear my name in his Noise -And I know it -I know it in my heart -Right now -Todd Hewitt -There's nothing we can't do toge Patrick Ness