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Patrick Ness Inspirational Quotes (116)

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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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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
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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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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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Stories don't always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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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
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