Patrick Ness Quotes
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Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
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She looks at me. She does. She.
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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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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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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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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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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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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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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 want a campfire box.
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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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But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.
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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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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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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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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
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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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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.