“To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Chaos Walking: A Trilogy
“To allow someone, anyone, to suffer is the greatest sin there is.”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Chaos Walking: A Trilogy
“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. It ain’t the Spackle that drove us to the end. It was ourselves.”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Chaos Walking: A Trilogy
“Roads is never the fastest way to get nowhere,” the woman says. “Don’t ye know that?”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Chaos Walking: A Trilogy
“History ain’t so important when yer just trying to survive,” I say, spitting it out under my breath. “That’s actually when it’s most important,” Hildy says,”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Chaos Walking: A Trilogy
“But then there’s her eyes and they look at you and don’t brook no arguments, don’t look like they ever doubt themselves, even when they should. Maybe they’re the eyes of a giant after all.”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Chaos Walking: A Trilogy
“But guessing a thing ain’t knowing a thing.”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Chaos Walking: A Trilogy
“I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it’s dangerous, too, that it’s painful and risky, that it’s making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Chaos Walking: A Trilogy
“But there’s always hope,” Ben says. “You always have to hope.”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Chaos Walking: A Trilogy
“War is 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.”
― Patrick Ness, quote from Chaos Walking: A Trilogy
Patrick Ness
Born place: in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, The United States
Born date January 1, 1971
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“And young. The teeth were not that deep. He”
― Morgan Rice, quote from Turned
“My touch doesn’t seem to be stabilizing her anymore. What if we lose her before we land?” “We’re not going to lose her. We can’t—she isn’t ours to lose.” Deep spoke in a lazy drawl but his broad shoulders were bunched with tension as he hunched over the controls. “I wish you’d stop pretending you don’t care.” Lock stroked Kat’s hand. “Maybe if you’d let her know how you really feel instead of always putting up a wall—” “There”
― Evangeline Anderson, quote from Sought
“The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.”
― Padma Venkatraman, quote from Climbing the Stairs
“When someone gets cheated, that person gets upset not because they have lost money but because he or she realizes that they have been foolish enough to be tricked by someone.”
― Sudha Murty, quote from The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk
“Fairy tales. That was all she could remember about fairies, and as she tried desperately to recall the ones she'd heard or read, she realized she knew of few with fairies in them. And the two before her were nothing like Rumpelstiltskin or Cinderella's fairy godmother. Elegant Oberon and Titiana, silly Puck--Shakespeare was no help, either. These two, with their changing shapes and their offhand cruelties, had their roots in horror movies.”
― Emma Bull, quote from War for the Oaks
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