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61 " And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts. "
― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
62 " It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends. "
63 " Time goes on, even when yer not looking. "
64 " And I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway. "
65 " 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 yourself left at all?" ~pg 11 "
66 " That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever. "
67 " I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep. "
68 " 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. "
69 " I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again. "
70 " Then at the top of the hill, the road forks.Which just figures."You gotta be kidding." I say.One part of the road goes left, the other goes right.(Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?) "
71 " Poo Todd! "
72 " Life ain't fair.It ain't.Not never.It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive. "
73 " It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise. "
74 " We ain’t spies,” I say in a hurry.“The army your girl’s been talking about has been spotted marching down the river road,” Doctor Snow says. “One of our scouts just reported them as less than an hour away.”“Oh, no,” I hear Viola whisper.“She ain’t my girl,” I say, low.“What?” Doctor Snow says.“What?” Viola says.“She’s her own girl,” I say. “She don’t belong to anyone.”And does Viola ever look at me. "
75 " Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side. "
76 " Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving. "
77 " She looks at me. She does. She. "
78 " Here I am.Here we are.Here we go.Here is all that matters. "
79 " Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'""There's only forward," I repeat."Outward and up," she says. "
80 " And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing.Each of us knowing the other. "