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Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3) QUOTES

Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3) QUOTES

1 " And then his noise falls completely silent-

And he stops struggling-

And looking right into my eyes-

He dies.

My Todd dies. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

2 " This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

3 " He is worse than the others, I show. He is worst of all of them.
Because–
Because he knew he was doing wrong. He felt the pain of his actions–
But he did not amend them, shows the Sky.
The rest are worth as much as their pack animals, I show, but worst is the one who knows better and does nothing. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

4 " To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

5 " Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

6 " It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

7 " And what other kind of man would you want leading you into battle?” he says, reading my Noise. “What other kind of man is suitable for war?”
A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes monsters of men.
“Wrong,” says the Mayor. “It’s war that makes us men in the first place. Until there’s war, we are only children.”
Another blast of the horn comes roaring down at us, so loud it nearly takes our heads off and it puts the army off its stride for a second or two.
We look up the road to the bottom of the hill. We see Spackle torches gathering there to meet us.
“Ready to grow up, Todd?” the Mayor asks. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

8 " What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

9 " His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still-
See how he feels the skin of my hand against his, see how he wants to take it and press it against his mouth, how he wants to breathe in the smell of me and how beautiful I look to him, how strong after all that illness, and how he wants to just lightly touch my neck, just there, and how he wants to take me in his arms and-
"Oh, God," he says, looking away suddenly. "Viola, I'm sorry, I didn't mean-"
But I just put my hand to the back of his neck-
And he says, "Viola-?"
And I pull myself towards him-
And I kiss him.
And it feels like, finally. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

10 " And it feels like, finally. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

11 " You went up a girl and came down a woman. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

12 " You said war should never be personal, but that’s all it’s ever been for me. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

13 " We negotiated peace with them the first time, my girl, because we were in a position of strength. That's how wars work, that's how truces work. We show them we've got more power than they imagine and they're more willing to make peace. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

14 " Simone! Are you all right? Simone!"
And a voice, grunting with pain, says, "Todd?"
And-
And it ain't Simone's voice.
The smoke starts to clear.
And it ain't Simone.
"You saved me, Todd," says the Mayor, lying there, bad burns all over his face and hands, his clothes smoking like a brush fire. "You saved my life."
And his eyes are full of wonder of it-
That in the rush of the explozhun the person I chose to save-
The one I chose without even thinking-
(without there even being time for him to control me-)
(no time for him to make me do it-)
Was the Mayor. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

15 " What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it
down. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

16 " I’ll find you—

Keep calling for me, Viola—

Cuz here I come. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

17 " This planet is information' the Mayor says. 'All the time, never-ceasing. Information it wants to give you, information it wants to take from you to share with everyone else. And I think you can respond to that in two ways. You can control how much you give it, like you an I have done [...]'
'Or you can open yourself to it completely,; I say. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

18 " Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing. "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

19 " It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)

20 " Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap? "

― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)