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Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and ...
PATRICK NESS Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they...
PATRICK NESS It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you ne...
PATRICK NESS Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out...
PATRICK NESS He is sorry-
For everything-
For Prentisstown-
For Viola-
For Ben-
F...
PATRICK NESS Dogs don't got the problems of people.
Dogs can be happy any old time.
PATRICK NESS We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.
PATRICK NESS We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
PATRICK NESS Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
PATRICK NESS Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
PATRICK NESS In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift inde...
PATRICK NESS Because even the one you hate leaves an absence when they go.
PATRICK NESS You went up a girl and came down a woman.
PATRICK NESS A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
PATRICK NESS Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
PATRICK NESS I’ll find you—

Keep calling for me, Viola—

Cuz here I come.
PATRICK NESS It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
PATRICK NESS Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
PATRICK NESS Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
PATRICK NESS You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
PATRICK NESS But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes...
PATRICK NESS Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
PATRICK NESS We are the choices we make.
PATRICK NESS What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can�...
PATRICK NESS To allow someone, anyone, to suffer is the greatest sin there is.
PATRICK NESS I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
PATRICK NESS The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
PATRICK NESS Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good wi...
PATRICK NESS But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.
PATRICK NESS A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That'...
PATRICK NESS No one wants to read an apologetic book.
PATRICK NESS And I know I’ve lost.
Everything is lost.
Everything is over.
“As the newly appoi...
PATRICK NESS Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
PATRICK NESS Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go...
PATRICK NESS He steps away from her, going to a little side table and removing a cloth that's lying on top. Under...
PATRICK NESS Simone! Are you all right? Simone!"
And a voice, grunting with pain, says, "Todd?"
...
PATRICK NESS Who told you that?" I say. "Davy Prentiss?"
He blinks. "What?"
"What do you mean what PATRICK NESS But what he's forgetting," she says. "What he's forgotting is that me and Todd, we ran halfway acros...
PATRICK NESS He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like I'm standing on the edge of an abyss...
PATRICK NESS And then his noise falls completely silent-

And he stops struggling-

And looki...
PATRICK NESS His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still-
See how he feels the skin of ...
PATRICK NESS We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one l...
PATRICK NESS Free, I think. They're free.
(is this why she joined them?)
I feel so-
...
PATRICK NESS Ow, Todd?
PATRICK NESS The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say....
PATRICK NESS Manchee comes outta the bushes and sits down next to me cuz I’ve stopped right there in the middle...
PATRICK NESS Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.
PATRICK NESS Except I didn't say eff
PATRICK NESS There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
PATRICK NESS He's a woman.
He's a grown woman
He's a old woman.
PATRICK NESS A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
PATRICK NESS Life ain't fair.
It ain't.
Not never.
PATRICK NESS I rub the ears of my dog, my stupid goddam ruddy great dog that I never wanted but who hung around a...
PATRICK NESS Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
PATRICK NESS And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Haven.”
I smile,...
PATRICK NESS Knowledge is dangerous.
PATRICK NESS Ow, Todd? Ow?
PATRICK NESS You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious.
"No," I say, fuddling my noise. ...
PATRICK NESS When luck ain't with you, it's against you.
PATRICK NESS And I put my hand on her arm to stop her rowing.
Aaron’s Noise roars up in red and black.
PATRICK NESS I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
PATRICK NESS War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and...
PATRICK NESS Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's d...
PATRICK NESS The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say....
PATRICK NESS Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle ...
PATRICK NESS Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havo...
PATRICK NESS There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
PATRICK NESS Faith with proof is no faith at all.
PATRICK NESS Things change, but they stay the same.
PATRICK NESS The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
PATRICK NESS It'll make you look rugged,' Mel says.
'Because I woke up this morning,' I say, 'and the one th...
PATRICK NESS Sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.
PATRICK NESS HELP!”
I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-
No.<...
PATRICK NESS A veces la gente necesita mentirse a sí misma más que ninguna otra cosa
PATRICK NESS Las historias son criaturas salvajes —dijo el monstruo—. Cuando las sueltas, ¿quién sabe los d...
PATRICK NESS Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
PATRICK NESS His absence is so big it's like he's there.
PATRICK NESS I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot...
PATRICK NESS Le storie sono fra tutte le cose le più selvagge. Le storie inseguono, predano e mordono.
PATRICK NESS To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
PATRICK NESS Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies ne...
PATRICK NESS Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeli...
PATRICK NESS There was once an invisible man, the monster continued, though Conor kept his eyes firmly on ...
PATRICK NESS And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but w...
PATRICK NESS I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.
PATRICK NESS And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to ...
PATRICK NESS A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their g...
PATRICK NESS He's seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right ther...
PATRICK NESS Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only ...
PATRICK NESS Who cares even if I didn't?!" Conor shouted back. "They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary...
PATRICK NESS Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with charisma and top marks ...
PATRICK NESS And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he ...
PATRICK NESS You think I tell you stories to teach you lessons? the monster said. You think I ha...
PATRICK NESS Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now.
But he was further away than ever.
PATRICK NESS Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
PATRICK NESS Who am I? the monster repeated, still roaring. I am the spine that the mountains hang upon...
PATRICK NESS Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ d...
PATRICK NESS Four lines, and the world went quiet.

I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum PATRICK NESS But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to...
PATRICK NESS And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if...
PATRICK NESS The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
PATRICK NESS If you speak the truth, the monster whispered in his ear, you will be able to face whateve...
PATRICK NESS Conor held tightly onto his mother.
And by doing so, he could finally let her go.
PATRICK NESS Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.
PATRICK NESS You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An en...
PATRICK NESS There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was ac...
PATRICK NESS Death is not the end.
PATRICK NESS They're your parents. They're meant to love you because. Never in spite.
PATRICK NESS It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving.
PATRICK NESS Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken.
PATRICK NESS Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It's the worst kind of regret.
PATRICK NESS Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.
PATRICK NESS It may cost you, my Queen. It may cost you dear."
"All the best journeys do, faun.
PATRICK NESS Tread carefully, Marty. I mean it. The world has completely changed around you while you weren't loo...
PATRICK NESS So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"
And I look right...
PATRICK NESS But there are harder things than being invisible, it said.
PATRICK NESS The Third Tale
There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not ...
PATRICK NESS What did you do to help the invisible man?"
And he felt the monster's voice again, like it was ...
PATRICK NESS Or perhaps we should just ask Todd."
I pound the glass right at his face. He doesn't even flinc...
PATRICK NESS Not everyone has to be the chosen one. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most peop...
PATRICK NESS Yes", Kumiko said, seriously. "Exactly that. The extraordinary happens all the time. So much, we can...
PATRICK NESS I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat th...
PATRICK NESS Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Mo...
PATRICK NESS Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways...
PATRICK NESS Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too.
PATRICK NESS Here
It's like the song of a family where everything's always all right, it's a song of belongi...
PATRICK NESS To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
PATRICK NESS As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has t...
PATRICK NESS A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
PATRICK NESS One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of ind...
PATRICK NESS Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.
PATRICK NESS The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in...
PATRICK NESS You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma...
PATRICK NESS That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you...
PATRICK NESS The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? ...
PATRICK NESS What's important is that I know how much you worry about shit. And what's also important is that I k...
PATRICK NESS History ain’t so important when yer just trying to survive,” I say, spitting it out under my bre...
PATRICK NESS 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 bac...
PATRICK NESS War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much know...
PATRICK NESS Who will remember Todd?
Who will remember what he did?
Todd -
Todd -
And ...
PATRICK NESS Belief is half of healing.
PATRICK NESS Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?"
"You closed the school and burnt all the books."...
PATRICK NESS You said war should never be personal, but that’s all it’s ever been for me.
PATRICK NESS We're just as screwed up and brave and false and loyal and wrong and right as anyone else.
PATRICK NESS If you can't, continue to be nice to them. Eventually, they may start being nice. A bully wants to h...
CARA NESS Who thought I would be Miss Louisa County?
CARA NESS That means I was born with all the bones in my head grown together. I had to have two operations whe...
CARA NESS See, almost every single one of you raised your hands. I also was teased when I was a little younger...
CARA NESS I had to miss school, and I had to have half my head shaved.
CARA NESS You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looki...
ELIOT NESS Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority o...
ELIOT NESS Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the ...
ELIOT NESS Jim knew the word about The Legend of Bagger Vance was that Matt Damon didn't really look like a gol...
TOM NESS Possibly it wasn't too important for the world to know that we couldn't be bought, but I did want Al...
ELIOT NESS John Roberts' record is extensive and troubling.
DEBRA NESS Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the ...
ELIOT NESS It's hard to get people to understand what the court means in their daily lives.
DEBRA NESS It's unbelievable how poorly informed we are, how little information we have to go on.
DEBRA NESS That means a company could have a 'No Women' or 'No African-Americans' hiring policy, and that would...
DEBRA NESS John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's r...
DEBRA NESS In the end, he refused to commit to upholding the core principles of Roe.
DEBRA NESS We must oppose his confirmation as chief justice even more strenuously because, in that post, he wou...
DEBRA NESS This vote is painful proof that a majority of senators will not stand up for women's rights, civil r...
DEBRA NESS Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority o...
ELIOT NESS Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns.
NESS KINGSLEY If we don't get this done, the very soul of Minnesota will be lost.
LANCE NESS The problem is, hunters and anglers have day jobs. They're lunch-pail sort of guys. They can't take ...
LANCE NESS In my opinion, it was probably the worst case of legislation and bad acting I've seen in 20 years. I...
LANCE NESS Since everybody benefits from our natural resources, shouldn't everybody have to pay for them?
LANCE NESS We think it's an important work showing some of the loopholes in the current wetlands law.
LANCE NESS We might be the land of 10,000 lakes, but if the land of 10,000 lakes are 10,000 dead lakes or 10,00...
LANCE NESS As duck hunters out in the field, we see that something's changed rather rapidly in the past 10 to 2...
LANCE NESS

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