Patrick Ness Quotes

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• Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

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  Integrity, Responsibility, Choices

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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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  Lying, Believe, Knowing

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• To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Choices

  "Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, Book 3)". Book by Patrick Ness, May 3, 2010.

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• Faith with proof is no faith at all.

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  Proof

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• It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

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  Mistake, Made

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• We are the choices we make.

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  Choices, Never Let Go

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

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• A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

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  Book, Where You Live, World

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• Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

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  Important, Stories, Storytelling

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• Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

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  Men, Two, Differences

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

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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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  Men, Mad, Noise

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

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• I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

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  Waiting, Library, Looks

  "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• ... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

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  Ideas, Good Ideas

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• It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

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  Perseverance, Fall, Get Back

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• It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

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  Love, Strength, Weakness

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• A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

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  Men, Crowds, Capable

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• In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

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  Boys, Numbness, World

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• Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

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  Doe, Worst, Knows

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• Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

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  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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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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  People, Worry, Mind

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• Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

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  Real, Mean, Looks

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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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  Animal, Wild World, Stories

  "A Monster Calls". Book by Patrick Ness, May 5, 2011.

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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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  Doe, Don't Change, Changed

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

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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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  Lying, Men, World

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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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  Want, Said, Wells

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• War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

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  War, Men, Devil

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

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