Patrick Ness Quotes
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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I want a campfire box.
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And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.
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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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Things change, but they stay the same.
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"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.
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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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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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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
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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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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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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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Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
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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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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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She looks at me. She does. She.
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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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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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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.