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Patrick Ness Quote: “Despair was one thing, despair had a component of energy, despair grappled and fought, despair needed you alive to feel its pain, but sadness, sadness was something else altogether. Sadness was a slow vampire. Sadness reached in and uncorked you like a full tub. Sadness was the parasite that killed its host.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “He walked on angrily to school. He blamed Lily because it was mostly her fault, wasn’t it? He blamed Lily, because who else was there?”
Patrick Ness Quote: “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “I am the Circle and the Circle is me.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “He’s battling the Mayor, across some kind of sand-covered square in front of what looks like a chapel– And I get a sinking feeling of how many terrible things have happened to me and Todd in churches.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “There’s peace to be found in doing something for yourself.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Mrs. Mitchell,” Henna greets, her voice three sizes smaller than a minute ago.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “I don’t think your suffering is fake. I don’t think these feelings about wanting it to end are fake. I don’t think your self-hatred is fake. So why do you think it’s fake?”
Patrick Ness Quote: “The word morgue suddenly flashes somewhere deep inside him – for where else are you laid out on cool, solid blocks – and in rising horror, he opens his eyes, unaware they were even closed.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “You just got days, it seemed to her. Where stuff happened or it didn’t. Where planning just showed you what a fool you were to think you had any say over what your life would be.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “He knew she wouldn’t be in there – he couldn’t hear the kettle boiling, which she always did first thing – but he’d found himself asking for her a lot lately when he entered rooms in the house.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and falls asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Is it not a shame,” she says, “that we must wait until the end of the world for all boundaries to fall?”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Que importaria la distancia si solo fuera un sueno.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Sheep got even less to say than dogs do.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “And so he waited by himself, leaning against a stone wall away from the other kids as they squealed and laughed and looked at their phones as if nothing in the world was wrong, as if nothing in the whole entire universe could ever happen to them.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Well, Adam thought. I’ve had my mouth on his bare skin. That seemed to be effective.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “I want her so much, my heart feels heavy, like i’m grieving. Is this what they meant about that stomach feeling? They didn’t say it felt this sad.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “How did there get to be ‘sides’? You said the guards were on our ‘side’. How did that happen? How did I end up on a ‘side’? – I can’t really explain. Things just happen. Over time, they accumulate. Bad attracts bad. Good attracts good. Eventually there are sides. The members flux, sometimes the boundaries are gray. Good and bad are sometimes not the point. It happens.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Rewards, my tender pigpiss.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “You may have no choice.” “There’s always a choice,” Viola says by my side. “Oh, people like to say that,” the Mayor says. “It makes them feel better.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “He’s uncertain what’s going to happen next. But he is certain that that’s actually the point. If this is all a story, then that’s what the story means. If it isn’t a story, then the exact same is true.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “The devil always outnumbers his foes,” he said. “Even if he is alone.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Her settlement, for example, were peaceable and as the calls to war had remained voluntary, they had held back, hoping it would pass. Nevertheless, they had cursed her for wanting to leave with him, telling her of the atrocities committed by his people out in the west. They had turned their backs on her in disgust when she told them he was a person, not a whole people.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like i’m standing on the edge of an Abyss, that I’m about to fall down into him, into blackness so empty and lonely there’d never be a way out.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “A sudden, hard wind swirled up around them, and the monster spread its arms out wide, so wide they seemed to reach to opposite horizons, so wide they seemed big enough to encompass the world.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “A few of you are here by choice. Or at least by Switzerland.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “But how are you this fine evening? – My arches are falling. – Isn’t that the first line of a sonnet?”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Because who can say in the end that any one of these places is more real than any other?”
Patrick Ness Quote: “A memory is not the thing remembered.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “We negotiated peace with them the first time, my girl, because we were in a position of strength. That’s how wars work, that’s how truces work. We show them we’ve got more power than they imagine and they’re more willing to make peace.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “I can’t tell you what’s real for you. But in return, you can’t say what’s real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “But here, now, again, this was more than the body, or the mind, or the personality. It wasn’t holy, that was a whole other mess, but it was something that could be touched only here.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “The loud is a different kind of loud, because swamp loud is just curiosity, creachers figuring out who you are and if yer a threat. 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 yerself left at all? Swamp.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Do you know what separates us from the beasts, Viola?’ I frowned, sensing a lesson. ‘The ability to wait to open a present?’ He laughed. ‘Fire,’ he said. ‘The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “A world made of words, Seth thinks, where you live for a while.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “It was like looking into the most despairing kind of madness, a madness that only felt hurt and pain, a madness that therefore could only act in hurt and pain.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “He is worse than the others, I show. He is worst of all of them. Because– Because he knew he was doing wrong. He felt the pain of his actions– But he did not amend 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.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Remember,” he says. “Hope.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “For Rachel, it might have even been worse, because she had known the rules for a long time, had thrived on them, and had maybe now – if her equally unprecedented lunch outburst was anything to go by – found them empty.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Drew missed Peter when he left, but it was like missing a hole.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Albert got her to her feet. He gathered her few wayward things and delicately placed a hand on an unburnt spot to help her walk. – You’re going to have this two-tone problem for a while. Your backside is as white as virgin pearl. – A moan will have to suffice for a witty rejoinder. – I’ll pretend to be dazzled.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Of course you are afraid, the monster said, pushing him slowly forward. And yet you will still do it.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “I’m too busy repeatedly counting ketchup bottles and wishing I was dead, wishing I was dead, wishing I was dead, wishing I was dead.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “I knew it,” Conor grumbled. “These kinds of stories always have stupid princes falling in love.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Death is suddenly objectionable to you when the dead has a name you know?”
Patrick Ness Quote: “The difference is that I think you never do it. Even if you’re tempted, even if you’re really close, because who knows? There might be more.”
Patrick Ness Quote: “But what good is being smart when you speak words and no one hears the ones you mean?”
Patrick Ness Quote: “Hope is terrifying, Viola,” he said. “No one wants to admit it, but it is.”
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