“You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.”
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Famous Patrick Ness Quotes
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.”
“Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
“A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.”
“We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”
“And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.”
“Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal”