We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?"
"I hope not," I say
Mots clés patrick-ness todd-hewitt viola-eade the-ask-and-the-answer
It's not that you should never love something so much 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-
...
I know it in my heart-
Right now-
Todd Hewitt-
There's nothing we can't do together-
And we're gonna win-
Mots clés love the-ask-and-the-answer
Then she said, with mock horror, "She's going to bring some of her old wigs, if you can believe it." She rubbed her bare head with her free hand. "I'll look like a zombie Margaret Thatcher.
Patrick NessMots clés margaret-thatcher wigs
One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. Factories grew on the landscape like weeds. Trees fell, fields were up-ended, rivers blackened. The sky choked on smoke and ash, and the people did, too, spending their days coughing and itching, their eyes turned forever toward the ground. Villages grew into town, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.
Patrick NessMots clés pollution
THERE IT IS,’ my mother says, and what she means is that the dot we’ve been nearing for weeks, the one that’s been growing into a larger dot with two smaller dots circling it, has now become even larger than that, growing from a dot to a disc, shining back the light from its sun, until you can see the blue of its oceans, the green of its forests, the white of its polar caps, a circle of colour against the black beyond.
Patrick NessMots clés space space-travel planet the-knife-of-never-letting-go chaos-walking monsters-of-men the-new-world the-ask-and-the-answer
Everybody was hoping for something, talking about our new life to come and all that they hoped from it. Fresh air, whatever that’s supposed to mean. Real gravity, instead of the fake kind that broke every now and then (even though no one over fifteen would admit that it was actually really fun when it did). All the wide open spaces we’d have, all the new people we’d meet when we woke them up, ignoring completely what happened to the original settlers, super- confident that we were so much better equipped that nothing bad could possibly happen to us.
All this hope, and here I was, right at the very edge of it, looking out into the darkness, the first to see it coming, the first to greet it when we found out what it really looked like.
Mots clés hope space space-travel planet
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?
Mots clés hope travel space space-travel hopeful planet the-knife-of-never-letting-go chaos-walking
Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?"
"You closed the school and burnt all the books."
"Ah, so I did.
Mots clés funny chaos-walking monsters-of-men
Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
That's what teachers always say, Conor said. No one believes them either.
Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
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