Patrick Ness Quotes

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• Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You…
• The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
• Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
• It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before…
• Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's…
• 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…
• Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
• Here is the boy, drowning.
• A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
• Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to…
• Know yourself and go in swinging.
• 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.
• We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
• It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
• I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head.…
• But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
• It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so…

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