Quotes About Desperation
Who will remember Todd? Who will remember what he did? Todd - Todd - And my heart breaks even more - Breaks forever - And I fall to my knees in the snow and sand - And I yell out, wordless and empty - And I drop the weapon.
~ Patrick Ness
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Here is the boy, drowning.
~ Patrick Ness
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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.
~ Patrick Ness
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TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.
~ Patrick Ness
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The parson refused to believe the Apothecary could help, said the monster. When times were easy, the parson nearly destroyed the Apothecary, but when the going grew tough, he was willing to throw aside every belief if it would save his daughters. "So?" Conor said. "So would anyone! So would everyone ! What did you expect him to do?
~ Patrick Ness
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I feel like I'm at the bottom of a well. I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot of light and I have to shout at the top of my lungs for anyone to hear me and even when I do, I say the wrong thing or they don't really listen or they're just humouring me.
~ Patrick Ness
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I can't stand it anymore!" he cried out as the fire raged around him. " I can't stand knowing that she'll go! I just want it to be over! I want it to be finished !
~ Patrick Ness
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The nightmare feeling was rising in him, turning everything seem heavy and impossible, like he'd been asked to lift a mountain with his bare hands and no one would let him leave until he did.
~ Patrick Ness
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He spoke the truth. He told the rest of the fourth tale. "I can't stand it anymore!" he cried out as the fire raged around him. "I can't stand knowing that she'll go! I just want it to be over! I want it to be finished!
~ Patrick Ness
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I can't stand it anymore!" he cried out as the fire raged around him. "I can't stand knowing that she'll go! I just want it to be over! I want it to be finished!" And
~ Patrick Ness
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His Noise saying, No, no, not now, not NOW- And then he says, Viola? "I'm here, Todd," I say, my voice breaking, shouting with desperation. "I'm here!" And he says Voila? again- Asking it- Asking like he's not sure I'm there- And then his Noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.
~ Patrick Ness
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Here is the boy, running. Here was the boy, drowning.
~ Patrick Ness
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It was like looking into the most despairing kind of madness, a madness that only felt hurt and pain, a madness that therefore could only act in hurt and pain.
~ Patrick Ness
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You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. 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.
~ Patrick Ness
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His face is trying to look calm but everyone can hear how badly he don't wanna die, how childlike his wishes are sounding, how loud his newly uncured Noise is spilling out all over the place.
~ Patrick Ness
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The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. 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. " -A Monster Calls
~ Patrick Ness
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Poor critter, Doc thought. Marooned here like Robinson Crusoe. And we're the cannibal savages.
~ Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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the desperate feel of the last warm night of summer.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
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If you have never been desperately poor, I doubt you can understand the relief I felt. For months I'd been waiting for the other shoe to drop, knowing that any small catastrophe could ruin me. But now I no longer had to live every day worrying about my next term's tuition or the interest on Devi's loan. I was no longer in danger of being forced out of the University.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
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I won't have any part of it. Not for the world. Trying to help right now would be like trying to put out a fire with my hands. Painful, and with no real results.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
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y en algunos sitios era tal la desesperación que las madres ya no lograban reunir suficiente esperanza para ponerles nombres a sus hijos.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
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The outer and much heavier blast door was on top of Xen, pinning him. He mustn't have gotten out in time and got hit by the EMP. Using all my robotics expertise, I shook him a few times while shouting his name. I got no response and couldn't see a reset button.
~ Unknown
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He wasn't supposed to die,' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us. Neither are you. Neither am I.
~ Patti Smith
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I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.
~ Patti Smith
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