Author: Patrick Ness

Cites

• George Eliot (2)
  • IN: The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
    FROM: Middlemarch, (1871), Novel, UK
• Radiohead (1)
  • IN: Monsters of Men (2010) Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Who's in the bunker? Who's in the bunker? Women and children first And the children first And the children I laugh until my head comes off I swallow 'til I burst"
    FROM: "Idioteque", (2000), Song, UK
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: The Ask and the Answer (2009) Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you."
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Björk (1)
  • IN: The Rest of Us Just Live Here (2015) Fiction, , British
    EPIGRAPH: "I thought I could organise freedom, How Scandinavian of me."
    FROM: "Hunter", (1997), Song, Iceland
• The Decemberists (1)
  • IN: The Crane Wife (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And all the stars were crashing round As I laid eyes on what I'd found.
    FROM: The Crane Wife, (2006), Song, US
• Aimee Mann (1)
  • IN: More Than This (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You ask a question in the mirror. Alas, no answer could be clearer.
    FROM: "Borrowing Time", (2008), Song, US
• Peter Gabriel (1)
  • IN: More Than This (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing fades as fast as the future, Nothing clings like the past.
    FROM: More Than This, (2002), Song, UK
• Hilary Mantel (1)
  • IN: A Monster Calls (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.
    FROM: An Experiment in Love, (1995), Novel, UK

Cited by

• Tom Vowler (1)
  • IN: Dazzling the Gods (2018) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
    FROM: A Monster Calls, (2011), Novel, US