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181 " the first thing you find out when dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say about anything "
― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
182 " I look up to him. His face and his Noise are as blank as I remember but the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man. "
183 " The loud is a different kind of loud, because swamp loud is just curiosity, creachers figuring out who you are and if yer a threat. Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yerself left at all? Swamp "
184 " Noise ain’t truth, "
185 " 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? "
186 " Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my Noise like whispers of the truth. "I think everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking.I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening."I think the asking is whether we get back up again. "
187 " Noise ain’t truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there’s a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don’t watch out. "
188 " Crazy people don't need an explanayshun for nothing. "
189 " She shakes her head, fiercely. “You idiot! You stupid fucking IDIOT!” She don’t say effing. "
190 " 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. It’s– Wow. "