Patrick Ness Quotes
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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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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I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal.
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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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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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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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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.
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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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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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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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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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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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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 it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
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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...