“ 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. ”
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“ His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still See how he feels the skin of my hand against his, see how he wants to take it and press it against his mouth, how he wants to breathe in the smell of me and how beautiful I look to him, how strong after all that illness, and how he wants to just lightly touch my neck, just there, and how he wants to take me in his arms and "Oh, God," he says, looking away suddenly. "Viola, I'm sorry, I didn't mean" But I just put my hand to the back of his neck And he says, "Viola?" And I pull myself towards him And I kiss him. And it feels like, finally. ”
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“ You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know. ”
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“ Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there. ”
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“ People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy. ”
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“ 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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“ Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. ”
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“ Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. ”
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“ Who cares even if I didn't?!" Conor shouted back. "They're just stupid berries. Woohoo, so scary. Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!" The monster looked at him quizzically. How strange, it said. The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seems to suggest otherwise. ”
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“ You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. ”
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“ Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised. ”
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“ Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. ”
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“ You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. ”
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“ Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised. ”
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“ So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time. ”
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“ You won't," says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd." He pushes Viola forward again She calls out from the pain of it Viola, I think Viola I grit my teeth and raise the rifle I cock it And I say what's true "I would kill to save her," I say. ”
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“ And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud. ”
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“ And I put my hand on her arm to stop her rowing. Aaron’s Noise roars up in red and black. The current takes us on. “I’m sorry!” I cry as the river takes us away, my words ragged things torn from me, my chest pulled so tight I can’t barely breathe. “I’m sorry, Manchee!” “Todd?” he barks, confused and scared and watching me leave him behind. “Todd?” “Manchee!” I scream. Aaron brings his free hand towards my dog. “MANCHEE!” “Todd?” And Aaron wrenches his arms and there’s a CRACK and a scream and a cutoff yelp that tears my heart in two forever and forever. 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 back and my mouth is open in a neverending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside of me. ”
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“ And then his noise falls completely silent And he stops struggling And looking right into my eyes He dies. My Todd dies. ”
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“ He is sorry For everything For Prentisstown For Viola For Ben For every failure and every wrong For letting his pa down And he's looking up at me And he's begging me He's begging me Like I'm the only one who can forgive him Like it's only me who's got the power Todd? Please And all I can say is "Davy" And the fright and the terror in his Noise is too much It's too much And then it stops. Davy slumps, eyes still open, eyes still staring back at me, eyes still asking (I swear) for me to forgive him. And he lies there, still. Davy Prentiss is dead. ”
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“ 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? ”
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“ HELP!” I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out No. No. It’s empty. Viola’s breathing heavy in my arms . And Haven is empty. I reach the middle of the square. I don’t see nor hear a soul. I spin around again. “HELP!” I cry. But there’s no one. Haven’s completely empty. There ain’t hope here after all. ”
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“ 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.' She eyes me. 'You coming with? ”
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“ I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare? ”
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