Patrick Ness Quotes
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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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It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
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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 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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
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And it feels like, finally.
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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 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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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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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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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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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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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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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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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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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...and changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good...
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal.
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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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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.