Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.


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The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in...
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You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma...
PATRICK NESS
That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you...
PATRICK NESS
The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? ...
PATRICK NESS
What's important is that I know how much you worry about shit. And what's also important is that I k...
PATRICK NESS
History ain’t so important when yer just trying to survive,” I say, spitting it out under my bre...
PATRICK NESS
And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing bac...
PATRICK NESS
War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much know...
PATRICK NESS
Who will remember Todd?
Who will remember what he did?
Todd -
Todd -
And ...
PATRICK NESS
Belief is half of healing.
PATRICK NESS
Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?"
"You closed the school and burnt all the books."...
PATRICK NESS
You said war should never be personal, but that’s all it’s ever been for me.
PATRICK NESS
We're just as screwed up and brave and false and loyal and wrong and right as anyone else.
PATRICK NESS
If you can't, continue to be nice to them. Eventually, they may start being nice. A bully wants to h...
CARA NESS
Who thought I would be Miss Louisa County?
CARA NESS
That means I was born with all the bones in my head grown together. I had to have two operations whe...
CARA NESS
See, almost every single one of you raised your hands. I also was teased when I was a little younger...
CARA NESS
I had to miss school, and I had to have half my head shaved.
CARA NESS
You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looki...
ELIOT NESS
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority o...
ELIOT NESS
Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the ...
ELIOT NESS
Jim knew the word about The Legend of Bagger Vance was that Matt Damon didn't really look like a gol...
TOM NESS
Possibly it wasn't too important for the world to know that we couldn't be bought, but I did want Al...
ELIOT NESS
John Roberts' record is extensive and troubling.
DEBRA NESS
Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the ...
ELIOT NESS
It's hard to get people to understand what the court means in their daily lives.
DEBRA NESS
It's unbelievable how poorly informed we are, how little information we have to go on.
DEBRA NESS
That means a company could have a 'No Women' or 'No African-Americans' hiring policy, and that would...
DEBRA NESS
John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's r...
DEBRA NESS
In the end, he refused to commit to upholding the core principles of Roe.
DEBRA NESS
We must oppose his confirmation as chief justice even more strenuously because, in that post, he wou...
DEBRA NESS
This vote is painful proof that a majority of senators will not stand up for women's rights, civil r...
DEBRA NESS
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority o...
ELIOT NESS
Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns.
NESS KINGSLEY
If we don't get this done, the very soul of Minnesota will be lost.
LANCE NESS
The problem is, hunters and anglers have day jobs. They're lunch-pail sort of guys. They can't take ...
LANCE NESS
In my opinion, it was probably the worst case of legislation and bad acting I've seen in 20 years. I...
LANCE NESS
Since everybody benefits from our natural resources, shouldn't everybody have to pay for them?
LANCE NESS
We think it's an important work showing some of the loopholes in the current wetlands law.
LANCE NESS
We might be the land of 10,000 lakes, but if the land of 10,000 lakes are 10,000 dead lakes or 10,00...
LANCE NESS
As duck hunters out in the field, we see that something's changed rather rapidly in the past 10 to 2...
LANCE NESS