Chaos Walking Quotes:

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Girl, Chaos Walking

And it feels like, finally.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Feels, Chaos Walking

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Choices, Chaos Walking

You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

- Patrick Ness

source: Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

topic: Chaos Walking

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

topic: Fall, Thinking, Voice, Chaos Walking

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Love, Strength, Weakness, Chaos Walking, Best Strength

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

- Patrick Ness

source: Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

topic: Life, Men, Filters, Chaos Walking

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Fall, Thinking, Asking, Chaos Walking

I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Calling, Cuz, Viola, Chaos Walking

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.

- Patrick Ness

source: Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

topic: Life, Cutting, Hands, Yes Or No, Chaos Walking

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?

- Patrick Ness

topic: Winning, World, May, Never Let Go, Chaos Walking

War makes monsters out of men.

- Patrick Ness

topic: War, Men, Monsters, Chaos Walking

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it."

- Patrick Ness

source: "The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness". www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

topic: Dog, Needs, Firsts, Chaos Walking

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Book, School, Chemistry, Chaos Walking

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?

- Patrick Ness

topic: Beautiful, Hate, Air, Work Done, Chaos Walking