Patrick Ness Quotes
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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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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
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Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.
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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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Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.
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...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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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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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.
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It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them.
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As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.
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We are the choices we make.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.
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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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To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
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Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.
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Except I didn't say eff.
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.