"I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks.……" — Patrick Ness
"I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time."
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197 Quotes by Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness has 197 quotes on this site.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life.
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