Patrick Ness Quotes
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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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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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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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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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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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.
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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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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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And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
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We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.