"They open up the world. Because knowledge is……" — Patrick Ness
"They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians"
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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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