Life Quotes Quote by Patrick Ness, More Than This — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.”

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”

“You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.”

“As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.”

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”