"No one escapes from a war. No one.……" — Patrick Ness
"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 has temporarily lost all meaning."
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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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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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