Patrick Ness Quotes
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No one wants to read an apologetic book.
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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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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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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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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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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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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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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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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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Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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She looks at me. She does. She.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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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 promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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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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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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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?