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The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2) QUOTES

21 " He survives, does our Todd. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

22 " We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

23 " We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?"
"I hope not," I say "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

24 " If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

25 " It's not that you should never love something so much 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-
...
I know it in my heart-
Right now-
Todd Hewitt-
There's nothing we can't do together-
And we're gonna win- "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

26 " Faith with proof is no faith at all. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

27 " To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

28 " Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard? "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

29 " If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

30 " So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
"Always," I say to him. "Every time. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

31 " You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

32 " Things change, but they stay the same. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

33 " You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact.
"I do," I say. Also a fact. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

34 " She tried to kill you, Viola. She tried to blow you up... You don't owe her nothing,' he says.
But I feel his arms on me and I'm realizing things don't seem so impossible anymore. I feel Todd touching me and there's anger rising in my gut but it's not at him and I grunt and I pull myself up again, leaning on him to keep me there as I stand. 'I do owe her,' I say. 'I owe her the look on her face when she sees me alive. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

35 " You won't," says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd."
He pushes Viola forward again -
She calls out from the pain of it -
Viola, I think -
Viola -
I grit my teeth and raise the rifle -
I cock it -
And I say what's true -
"I would kill to save her," I say. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

36 " I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

37 " We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

38 " Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

39 " Dogs don't got the problems of people.
Dogs can be happy any old time. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

40 " Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting."
"No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't."
"I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head. "

― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)