Patrick Ness Quotes

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• I want a campfire box.
• Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
• Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
• Poo" Manchee barks quielty to himself. "Poo, poo, poo." "Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
• I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.
• We don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
• Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward…
• I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows…
• Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
• Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
• Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how…
• You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she?…
• Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
• If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a…
• TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him…
• I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling…
• I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He…
• But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
• I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to…
• We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

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