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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) QUOTES

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " 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 , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

3 " His absence is so big it's like he's there. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

4 " 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. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

5 " War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

6 " And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too much and my hands are on my head and I’m rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside of me. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

7 " HERE
It’s-
Can I say?
It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

8 " Here
It's like the song of a family where everything's always all right, it's a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it's a song that'll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that's broken, it fixes. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

9 " There's her silence, loud as a roar, pulling at me like the greatest sadness ever, like I want to take it and press myself into it and just disappear forever down into nothing.
What a relief that would feel like right now. What a blessed relief. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

10 " Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

11 " Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word.
One word. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

12 " And I know I’ve lost.
Everything is lost.
Everything is over.
“As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.”
“Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed.
I hold her tightly to me.
“I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.”
We’ve run right into a trap.
We’ve run right off the end of the world.
“Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

13 " Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

14 " Do you believe there's hope at the end?' I ask.
'No,' she says simply, looking away. 'No, I don't, but I'm still going.' She eyes me. 'You coming with? "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

15 " HELP!”
I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-
No.
No.
It’s empty.
Viola’s breathing heavy in my arms .
And Haven is empty.
I reach the middle of the square.
I don’t see nor hear a soul.
I spin around again.
“HELP!” I cry.
But there’s no one.
Haven’s completely empty.
There ain’t hope here after all. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

16 " And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Haven.”
I smile, a little. “You said effing,” I say. “You actually said the word effing. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

17 " He's a woman.
He's a grown woman
He's a old woman. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

18 " A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard and it's short and lotsa New World people have lost the battle.

"It's a place for burying dead folk," I say.

Her eyes widen. "A place for doing what?"

"Don't people die in space?" I ask.

"Yeah," she says. "But we burn them. We don't put them in holes." She crosses her arms around herself, mouth and forehead frowning, peering around at the graves. "How can this be sanitary? "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

19 " If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming? "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

20 " As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will.

I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible. "

― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)