"Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from……" — Patrick Ness
"Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind."
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197 Quotes by Patrick Ness
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is…
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world,…
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking…
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But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes…
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves…
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Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet…
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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