Patrick Ness Quotes
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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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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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Even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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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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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
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We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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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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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.
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If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?
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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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And it feels like, finally.
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Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.
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...and changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good...