Patrick Ness Quotes
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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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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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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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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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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And it feels like, finally.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.
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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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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
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We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
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Poo" Manchee barks quielty to himself. "Poo, poo, poo." "Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.
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...and changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good...
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It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.
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We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.