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61 " The devil tells the best stories. "
― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
62 " And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn.A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun. "
63 " Because an idea lives on after the death of the person. "
64 " And I kiss him.And it feels like, finally. "
65 " Without pain, it feels almost like I don't have a body at all, almost like I'm a ghost, sitting in a chair, blinded and eternal. Like I'm dead already. Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt? "
66 " And I feel her against me -And I think Viola -I think VIOLA! -I think VIOLA!!!! "
67 " 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. "
68 " Better the devil you know. I wonder why the only choice is twixt two devils, tho. "
69 " There's always a choice," Viola says by my side."Oh, people like to say that," the Mayor says. "It makes them feel better. "
70 " Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance. "
71 " Patience,” she says again. But she says it impatiently. "
72 " To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it, "
73 " She turns to me sharply. “To live _is_ to fight,” she snaps. “To preserve life is to fight _everything_ that man stands for.” She takes an angry huff of air. “And now her, too, with all the bombs. I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim.”Her voice has raised but she lowers it again. “That's my war,” she says. “That's the war I'm fighting. "
74 " Not everything is black and white. In fact, almost nothing is. "
75 " Close enough so I can see the smile, a smile I know full well, a smile that clubs, a smile that beats, a smile that dominates. "
76 " But the Spackle War was over a long time ago, wasn't it?”“Thirteen years now.”“Thirteen years where you could have righted a wrong.”She finally looks at me. “Life is only that simple when you're young, my girl. "
77 " She regards me quietly and then she quotes something Mistress Coyle once said to me. “We are the choices we make.” It takes me a second to realize she's just said goodbye. "
78 " A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.” “An army is,” I say. “Only if it has a general for a brain. "
79 " The thing is, Todd, people don't really want freedom, no matter how much they might bleat on about it. "
80 " She waits to see how I take this. I have no idea how I take this. "