Patrick Ness Quotes

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• Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
• It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them
• 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 don’t remember nothing,…
• ...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at…
• And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says,…
• Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
• War makes monsters out of men.
• Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
• And it feels like, finally.
• You went up a girl and came down a woman.
• Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on…
• I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
• Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how…
• Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
• Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
• Except I didn't say eff
• There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
• Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and…
• Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you…
• Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

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