Patrick Nessis an American author, journalist and lecturer who moved to London at age of 28 and now holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls... (wikipedia)
The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.
And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.
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.
Things change, but they stay the same.
We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.
The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426
War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them
You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
We are the choices we make.
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
if one of us falls, we all fall
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.