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1 " 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. "
― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
2 " 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. "
― Patrick Ness , More Than This
3 " We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy. "
4 " People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy. "
5 " 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. "
6 " Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. "
― Patrick Ness , The Rest of Us Just Live Here
7 " Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. "
8 " A good idea always attracts other good ideas. "
― Patrick Ness
9 " Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge. "
10 " 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? "
― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
11 " 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? "
12 " There is a brightness on her face and she keeps urging me on with tilts of her head and smiles and 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? "
13 " And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud. "
― Patrick Ness , A Monster Calls
14 " And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies. "
― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
15 " His absence is so big it's like he's there. "
16 " Death is not the end. "
― Patrick Ness , Release
17 " 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. "
18 " Not everyone has to be the chosen one. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing the things that are great from them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people probably. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyways. "
19 " Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too. "
20 " Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken. "
