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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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No one wants to read an apologetic book.
Patrick Ness
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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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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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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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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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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.
Patrick Ness
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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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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Things change, but they stay the same.
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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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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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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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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.
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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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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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Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
Patrick Ness