Patrick Ness Quotes
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You went up a girl and came down a woman.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
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"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"
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The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.
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Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less.
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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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I want a campfire box.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.
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In some ways. I always feel between worlds, between cultures, and I think that's not necessarily a bad place for a writer to be. Writers are kind of on the fringe anyway, observing, writing things down. I'm still mostly American, but it's a nice tension.
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Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.
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You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.