Patrick Ness Quotes - Page 2

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• Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

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  Life, Men, Filters

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

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  Hands, Knives, Saving

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• Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

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  Fall, Thinking, Voice

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• Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

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  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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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 only important what you do.

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  Philosophy, Writing, Thinking

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• Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

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  Dad, Blow, Thoughtful

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• 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 yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

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  Eye, Cuz, Noise

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.

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  Choices, Chaos Walking

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• Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

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  Here I Am, Matter

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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 or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

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  Life, Cutting, Hands

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time.

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  Mean, Eye, Forgiving

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• Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.

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  Seeing, I Can

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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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  Hurt, Real, Might

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• 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 me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

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  Fighting, Men, Life Is

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• There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

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  World, Wonder

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• Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.

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  Calling, Cuz, Viola

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• Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

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  Life, Hate, Needs

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• Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

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  Lying, People, Needs

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• A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

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  Wells

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• Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

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  Winning, World, May

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

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  Beach, Ocean, Moving

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• The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it."

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  Dog, Needs, Firsts

  "The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness". www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.

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  Girl, Believe, Trying

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• We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

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  Trying, World, Save The World

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• Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

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  Eyebrows, Surprise, Mock

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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