Patrick Ness Quotes

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• Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
• They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin…
• Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
• This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.
• And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.
• As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to…
• The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
• ... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
• That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.
• ...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
• So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as…
• No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd,…
• You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.
• And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't…
• ...and changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good...
• 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 it up to…
• I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.
• Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were…
• even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make…
• The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

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