Patrick Ness Quotes

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• And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
• The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our…
• Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy…
• There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
• Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
• We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say
• No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What…
• Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.
• Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
• We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and…
• And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing.…
• Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
• And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
• I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like…
• No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.
• Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest…
• No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life…
• The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to…
• I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
• It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell…

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