Patrick Ness Quotes
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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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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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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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And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.
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...and changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good...
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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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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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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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I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.
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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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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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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 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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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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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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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
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And it feels like, finally.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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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.