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Patrick Ness Inspirational Quotes (116)

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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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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 with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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That's what librarians do. 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.
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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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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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