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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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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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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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less.
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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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Things change, but they stay the same.
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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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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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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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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Knowledge is dangerous.
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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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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
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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.