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Patrick Ness is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter. He was born in Virginia in 1971 and moved to London in 1999. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls. He has won numerous awards for his work, including two Carnegie Medals. Ness is also a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and has taught creative writing at Oxford University.

Here are some of his notable works:

* The Chaos Walking trilogy (2008-2010)
* A Monster Calls (2011)
* More Than This (2013)
* The Rest of Us Just Live Here (2015)

Ness is a talented writer who has created some of the most memorable and thought-provoking books for young adults. His work is both entertaining and thought-provoking, and it has helped to change the way that people think about young adult literature.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

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Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

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Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

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And she says, Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Haven.I smile, a little. You said effing, I say. You actually said the word effing.

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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

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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?

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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

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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.

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inspirational quotes - Image for quote : You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Patrick Ness

People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Patrick Ness

Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised.

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.

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