Patrick Ness Quotes
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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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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Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
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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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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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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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She looks at me. She does. She.
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It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
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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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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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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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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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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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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.