Patrick Ness Quotes
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I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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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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It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.
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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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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
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No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.
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We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
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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.