Patrick Ness Quotes
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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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Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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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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I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.
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Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.
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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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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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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.
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I want a campfire box.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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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.