Patrick Ness Quotes
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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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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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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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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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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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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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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I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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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 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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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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 think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.
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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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Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
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Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
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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.