Patrick Ness Quotes
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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.
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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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I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.
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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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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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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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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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Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
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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.
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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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She looks at me. She does. She.
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Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.