Patrick Ness Quotes
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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 book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?
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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.
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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 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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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
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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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Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you.
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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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We are the choices we make.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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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.