Chiqui

“Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking."
I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening.
"I think the asking is whether we get back up again.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go