Patrick Ness Quotes
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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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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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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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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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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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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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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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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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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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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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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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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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?