Patrick Ness Quotes
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We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.
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I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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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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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
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The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.
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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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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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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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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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It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
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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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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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And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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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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Even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice.
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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.