Patrick Ness Quotes
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.
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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.
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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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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
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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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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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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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Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.
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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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And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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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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...and changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good...