Release Quotes

“They're your parents. They're meant to love you because. Never in spite.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It's the worst kind of regret.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Death is not the end.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Why did everyone no longer a teenager automatically dismiss any feeling you had then? Who cared if he’d grow out of it? That didn’t make it any less true in those painful and euphoric days when it was happening.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Marty: Dad's right about you. You got lost on your journey somewhere.
Adam: That's what everyone says who never bothered to go on a journey in the first place.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Little girls aren't naturally lost," Karen said, frowning as she scanned saucepans. "Someone makes them that way.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“And there. The power of a word. The power of one word. That's where it all changes.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“It may cost you, my Queen. It may cost you dear."
"All the best journeys do, faun.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Maybe there didn’t have to be any other reasons. Maybe love made you stupid. Maybe loneliness did.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“He’d heard once that the only people who could effectively treat the trauma of surviving an airplane crash were other survivors of airplane crashes. You could only instinctively trust someone who had been there, who had seen it firsthand.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“People with really stiff morals are easier to tip over.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“You got lost on your journey somewhere." "That's what everyone says who never bothered to go on a journey in the first place.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Upset isn't the same as the world falling apart.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Tread carefully, Marty. I mean it. The world has completely changed around you while you weren't looking.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“If you can't pray it away, it's not a real problem.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“But then she thinks, feels, reaches out, and knowing exactly what blame is - a human construct, one of its blackest and more selfish and self-blinding - she can find further strands of it, emanating in all directions, for blame is something that is shared but denied in equal measure.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Raising his eyes to look directly into Linus's face was maybe the scariest thing he'd had to do all day long, but it was only the free-falling terror that always accompanied hope.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It’s the worst kind of regret.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Every gay has to have their years in a huge coastal city. It's like a law.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“They're your parents. They're meant to love you because. Never in spite.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“His chest still burned, so much he couldn’t tell where the anger stopped and the wound began.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Is it not a shame," she says, "that we must wait until the end of the world for all boundaries to fall?”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“What if, on some level, way down deep inside, right down to the very simplest, purified form of who he was, what if he was corrupted? What if there was some tiny, tiny fault in the first building blocks of who he was, and everything since that moment of life was just papering over an essential crack? And he was just a carapace built on a facade built on scaffolding and there was no real core to him, no real central worth? At all?”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“And for a second, a second he would relive for years to come, Adam found himself considering it. Would it really be so bad? Wade didn't look like someone who would ever take his time about anything, and if it was over quick, who would really be harmed...?
He would. The thought of Wade's hands on his bare skin alone gave him goosebumps, already felt like a violation, but if...
If he deserved this. (Did he?) If Wade has spotted in him - as he obviously had - that corruption at his heart, that little piece of unfixable brokenness -
It's not real love, Marty said.
We're just messing around, Enzo said.
Maybe it was all true.
Maybe this is what happened to people like him.
(People like what?)”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“You must release me or you will never be released.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“He had loved Enzo. Loved him. And who cared if it was the love of a fifteen - and then a sixteen-year-old. Why did that make any less? They were older than those two idiots in Romeo and Juliet. Why did everyone no longer a teenager automatically dismiss any feeling you had then? Who cared if he'd grow out of it? That didn't make it any less true in those painful and euphoric days when it was happening. The truth was always now, even if you were young. Especially if you were young.”
― Patrick Ness, Release