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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.
Patrick Ness
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It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
Patrick Ness
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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.
Patrick Ness
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
Patrick Ness
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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?)
Patrick Ness
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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.
Patrick Ness
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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.
Patrick Ness
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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.
Patrick Ness
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
Patrick Ness
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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
Patrick Ness
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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.
Patrick Ness
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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...
Patrick Ness
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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.
Patrick Ness
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
Patrick Ness
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Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
Patrick Ness
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Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.
Patrick Ness
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
Patrick Ness
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
Patrick Ness
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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.
Patrick Ness
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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.
Patrick Ness
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
Patrick Ness
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
Patrick Ness
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And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
Patrick Ness
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
Patrick Ness
