Patrick Ness Quotes
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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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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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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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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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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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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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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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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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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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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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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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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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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.