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Patrick Ness Inspirational Quotes (114)

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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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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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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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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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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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