If you know me at all, you know I'm obsessed with this INCREDIBLE author called Patrick Ness.
He's amazing. Mama, you know this.
"I look at the knife again, sitting there on the moss like a thing without properties, a thing made of metal as sepa- rate from a boy as can be, a thing which casts all blame from itself to the boy who uses it."
“But a knife ain’t just a thing, is it? It’s a choice, it’s something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don’t. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again. As long as I hold it, as long as I use it, the knife lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to . . . but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will."
“easily big enough to kill an almost-man and his dog. The fins on their backs look just like a row of rushes and if you get too close, WHOOM!—outta the water they come, flying at you with their claws grasping and their mouths snapping.”
“Old World’s mucky, violent, and crowded, a-splitting right into bits with people a-hating each other and a-killing each other, no one is happy till everyone’s miserable.”
“The world’s a dangerous place when you don’t know enough.”
“Informayshun, all the time, never stopping, whether you want it or not. . . . And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
“Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long. . . . They do all the inside chores. . . . They reach woman- hood when they turn thirteen . . . and then they’re women and they become wives.”
"clean and they cook and they make babies and they all live in a big dormitory outside of town where they can’t interfere in men’s business”
“I rub the ears of my . . . ruddy great dog that I never wanted but who hung around anyway . . . and who’s right there when I need pulling back from the darkness I fall into and who tells me who I am whenever I forget.”
“Let me tell you about the place you’ve been born into, son. It’s called New World and it’s a whole planet made entirely of hope”
“I think how hope . . . may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it’s dangerous, too, that it’s painful and risky.”
“the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man’s mind ain’t knowing the man.”
“what she’s thinking and feeling and what’s going on inside her. . . . I can read her”
“war makes monsters of men”
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(Ayeee ALSO THIS IS MY OC THEODORE. IF YOU WANT TO READ MY WRITING LEMME KNOW PLEASE OK.)
“if one of us falls, we all fall,”
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(If you're interested in him and his brain and his world. Let me know, and I might write some shiz for you.)
