Patrick Ness Quotes
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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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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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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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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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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 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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Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.
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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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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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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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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
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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 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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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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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
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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 hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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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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And it feels like, finally.
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I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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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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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.