Patrick Ness Quotes

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• Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can…
• We are the choices we make.
• In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
• Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.
• Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth.…
• 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,…
• To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
• I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
• 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…
• To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle
• if one of us falls, we all fall
• The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a…
• How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
• Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
• You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
• I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
• Faith with proof is no faith at all.
• You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
• To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
• It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

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