Patrick Ness

“go in swinging”

— Patrick Ness

“Knowledge is dangerous.”

— Patrick Ness

Except I didn't say eff

— Patrick Ness

We are the choices we make.

— Patrick Ness

“Death is not the end.”

— Patrick Ness

“Then I will eat you alive.”

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Here is the boy, drowning.

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I want a campfire box.

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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

— Patrick Ness

“And I kiss him. And it feels like, finally.”

— Patrick Ness

“A little knowledge could be a large comfort.”

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“Harry leaned forward, his eyes flashing. "I see nothing.”

— Patrick Ness

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

— Patrick Ness

“A man without a filter, is chaos walking”

— Patrick Ness

“A memory is not the thing remembered.”

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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

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And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't…

— Patrick Ness

“This is it. This is goodbye. A goodbye I wasn't even looking for.”

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Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

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There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

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“But what is a dream...?...Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?”

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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

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“She can smell him now, a smudge of unwashed skin, poverty, extreme loneliness. She takes the can, still holding his hand, unrolling…

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“ There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible.…

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“Even though it walked and talked, even though it was bigger than his house and could swallow him in one bite, the…

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“There came a point when Harry stopped trying to fight back, when the blows from the monster were too strong, too many,…

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I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live…

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I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings…

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“And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Haven.” I smile, a little. “You said effing…

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“ You know that is not true, the monster said. You know that your truth, the one that you hide, Conor O’Malley,…

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“You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious. "No," I say, fuddling my noise. "You?" Her eyebrows are up…

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“But you can’t make war personal,” I say, “or you’ll never make the right decisions.” “And if you didn’t make personal decisions,…

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“And I put my hand on her arm to stop her rowing. Aaron’s Noise roars up in red and black. The current…

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“THERE IT IS,’ my mother says, and what she means is that the dot we’ve been nearing for weeks, the one that’s…

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I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I…

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“I'd heard there were some gay girls in senior year who were dating each other right out in the open. But not…

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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…

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I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true,…

— Patrick Ness