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41 " Even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice. "
― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
42 " Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'--'But he did not amen 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. "
43 " Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us? "
44 " Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.”“But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all. "
45 " But it's obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them. "
46 " Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward.“You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says. "
47 " You’re never more alive than in battle.”“Never more dead after,” I say.“Ah, philosophy,” he smiles. “I didn’t know you had it in you. "
48 " And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good. "
49 " It's too early for you to have grown up this much.''Yeah, well, sometimes you don't have a choice. "
50 " Her love for me made me as tall as the mountains "
51 " You let me go," I say. "I'll show you all about how I'm gonna transform you. "
52 " But then I think Viola -I think of her out there -And I push it back -I feel my hands on the floor -I use them to rise to my knees -I lift my head -To see the Mayor's surprised face only a yard or so away, coming toward me, something in his hand-"Goodness," he says, sounding almost cheerful. "Even stronger than I thought. "
53 " Is this what war is?Is this what men want so much?Is this sposed to make them men? "
54 " A memory is not the thing remembered. "
55 " There it is again, right in my head, I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME -But this time it's different -There's a lightness -A breath-stealing feeling -A weightlessness to it that makes my stomach rise -"I give you a gift," he says, his voice floating thru my head like a cloud on fire. "The same gift I've given to my captains. Use it. Use it to defeat me. I dare you."I look into his eyes, into the blackness of them, the blackness that swallows me whole -I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME.And that's all I can hear in the whole world. "
56 " And maybe it takes a terrorist to fight a terrorist. "
57 " You're the thing that matters to me, Todd. Out of this whole planet, you're the only thing that matters. "
58 " Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter. "
59 " I don't think so," the Mayor buzzes -And my feet stop running -But then I pick up one -And then the other -And I'm running for it again -I hear the Mayor laugh behind me. "Well done," he says. "
60 " 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 without tearing it down.It ain't the Spackle that drove us to the end.It was ourselves. "