Patrick Ness Quotes

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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.
• There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
• And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
• Stories don’t always have happy endings.
• I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look…
• Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No,"…
• But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not,…
• Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
• Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
• 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…
• Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched…
• Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
• "No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome…
• Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
• Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when…
• 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…
• There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426
• ...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423
• When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92
• Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53

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