Patrick Ness Quotes
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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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 was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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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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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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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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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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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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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.
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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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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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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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You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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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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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.