Patrick Ness Quotes
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal.
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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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...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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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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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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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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Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe 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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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.
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We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.
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Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
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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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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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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them.
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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.
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To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
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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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We don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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Except I didn't say eff.
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No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.