The Ask And The Answer Quotes

“We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?"
"I hope not," I say”
― Patrick Ness, 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”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“War makes monsters of men,”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it”
― Patrick Ness, 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-
...
I know it in my heart-
Right now-
Todd Hewitt-
There's nothing we can't do together-
And we're gonna win-”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“Always," I say to him. "Every time.”
― Patrick Ness

“Battle not with monsters
lest you become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“THERE IT IS,’ my mother says, and what she means is that the dot we’ve been nearing for weeks, the one that’s been growing into a larger dot with two smaller dots circling it, has now become even larger than that, growing from a dot to a disc, shining back the light from its sun, until you can see the blue of its oceans, the green of its forests, the white of its polar caps, a circle of colour against the black beyond.”
― Patrick Ness, The New World

“A peace that blacked yer eye,' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.'

He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. “The words of a sage,” he says, “in the voice of a hick.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“To live is to fight.”
― Patick Ness

“He survives, does our Todd.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“It's not that you should never love someone 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-”
― Patick Ness

“Bitches,' Mr. Hammar says from atop his horse.
'Your analysis' was not asked for, Seargeant,' says the Mayor.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer