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“Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Don't deceive me. Never leave me.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Life ain't fair.
It ain't.
Not never.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“If one of us falls, we all fall.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, 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, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will.

I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.”
― Patrick Ness, 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.”
― Patrick Ness, 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.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Then at the top of the hill, the road forks.
Which just figures.
"You gotta be kidding." I say.
One part of the road goes left, the other goes right.
(Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“I look at the knife-
Resting in a puddle of water-
Near the ledge by the pulpit behind Aaron-
Where I dropped it-
And I hear it calling to me-
Take me, it says-
Take me and use me, it says-
Aaron hold open his arms.
"Murder me," he says. "Become a man."
Never let me go says the knife”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“She looks at me. She does. She.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Smart boys make useless men.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Time goes on, even when yer not looking.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“What else do men think about except sex and enemies?”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Life ain't fair.
It ain't.
Not never.
It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Do you believe there's hope at the end?" I ask. "No," she says simply, looking away. "No, I don't, but I'm still going.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“No such thing as nothing. So it's gotta be a something, don't it?”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“There's always choices, pup, but from what I hear, ye made the right one.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go