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81 " A little knowledge could be a large comfort. "
― Patrick Ness , The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
82 " Finally, we come to the real thing, the thing that makes men men, the thing were born for, Todd. War. "
83 " War makes monsters of men," I say, quoting Ben from that night in the weird place where New World buried its dead."And women," Mistress Coyle says. "
84 " If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do. "
85 " If you ever see a war," she says, not lookng up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning. "
86 " Never love something so much it can be used to control you. "
87 " Haven musta been a comfortable place, a place where men weren’t fighting every day just to survive. Maybe too much comfort was the problem. "
88 " For a man would know the necessary choices that have to be made when one is facing one's oblivion. "
89 " I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim. That's my war. That's the war I'm fighting. "
90 " Everyone here is someone’s daughter,” she says quietly. “Every soldier out there is someone’s son. The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.” “And that’s why you don’t fight,” I say. She turns to me sharply. “To live is to fight,” she snaps. “To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for. "
91 " 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. "
92 " 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? “We are the choices we make, Todd,” the Mayor says. “Nothing more, nothing less. "
93 " He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like i'm standing on the edge of an Abyss, that I'm about to fall down into him, into blackness so empty and lonely there'd never be a way out. "
94 " Why would any innocent woman object to being identified? "
95 " Hmm,” Mistress Coyle hmms. "
96 " The Mayor's wrong-He's wrong forever and ever-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. "
97 " We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren't anything else. "
98 " She’s always saying that being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.” She catches my eye. “Which is something I believe, too.” “So what happened?” I ask. “Why isn’t she still in charge?” “She made a mistake,” Corinne says primly. “People who didn’t like her took advantage of it.” “What kind of mistake?” Her permanent frown gets bigger. “She saved a life. "
99 " We all fall but that’s not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again. "
100 " Not one of them lifting a hand to save theirselves from what’s coming, hoping if they’re meek enough, if they’re weak enough, then the monster won’t eat ’em. "