Patrick Ness Quotes
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less.
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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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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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And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together.
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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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'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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She looks at me. She does. She.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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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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And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.