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Patrick Ness, born on October 17, 1971, is a renowned author from the United Kingdom. Known for his unique writing style and engaging narratives, Ness has made a significant impact in the realm of young adult literature. His works often delve into complex human relationships and emotional experiences, resonating with both young readers and literary critics.

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“Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Looks May Treasure Useless Maps Librarian Right Direction

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“If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.”

Ifs Men Thousand Crowds Just One Fists

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“I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.”

Ifs I Can Creative Be Creative Palette

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“if one of us falls, we all fall”

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“How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”

Ifs Knows Hurt Alive Do You Know

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“And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.”

“Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true”

Ifs Thinking Men Might Blame Monsters Monstrous

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“Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”

Ifs Important Stories Storytelling

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“That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.”

Ifs Knows World Looks Know How Useless Librarian

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“No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Remember Doubt Okay Who To Trust

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“And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't that what you told me you did for each other?" I let go a few more tears but then I nod. "Over and over again.”

Ifs Needs Boys Tears Letting Go Saving Lifts Chins

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“HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.”

Ifs Heart Care Song Break Broken Hearing Take Care Belonging

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“Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.”

Ifs Want Said I Can Choices Boys Morning Worst Stupid One Day Picks Seeming Like A Boy

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.”

Ifs War Survivor Clipboards

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“And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Looks Said Speak Cry One Day Okay Angry Loud Without You

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“If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?”

Ifs World Want Ends End Of The World

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.”

Ifs Doe Changed Thrown Don't Change

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.”

Ifs Men Want Wells Two Bigs Differences Watches Noise Being True Two Things What A Man Wants

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?”

Ifs Done Bigs Seems Happens Beautiful Hate Turns Wonder Too Much Air Sky Planets Taste Hungry Fats What If Honey Living On Stink Space Travel Work Done Chaos Walking

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“If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.”

Ifs Want Plans Ocean Edges

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“You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.”

Ifs Needs Said Hard Break Dad Angry Grandma Your Dad

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“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.”

Ifs Trying Believe Girl Easier Ideals No Point My Girl

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“People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.”

People Ifs Want Mind Problem Care Worry Take Care

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“There's always beauty, if you know where to look.”

Ifs Knows Looks

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“Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."”

Ifs World Way Littles Said Sometimes Wonder Too Much Asking Asking Too Much

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“Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.”

Ifs Knows Real Might Hurt Being Real It Hurts Know Yourself

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“"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"”

People Ifs Thinking Should Danger Planets Overcoming Army Lifetime Illness Obstacles Madmen Having Hope Outrun

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About the Author

Born: October 17, 1971
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Quotes: 332

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