Patrick Ness Quotes
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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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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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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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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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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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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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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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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less.
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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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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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time.
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Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
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She looks at me. She does. She.
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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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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.