Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
Patrick NessAnd it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
Patrick NessI remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.
Patrick NessNo one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.
Patrick NessLike how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word.
One word.
If they can snuff out that part of you that's good, the part of you that won't kill, then they win, don't you see? If they can do it to you, they can do it to anyone. And they win. They WIN!
Patrick NessNo,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.
Patrick NessTags: hope
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.
The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.'
'And that's why you don't fight,'I say.
She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
Usually when a man calls a woman a bitch," a voice calls over from a cart pulling up near us at the edge of camp,"its because she's doing something right.
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