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I’ll find you—
Keep calling for me, Viola—
Cuz here I come.
”
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Patrick Ness (Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3))
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?"
Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
”
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Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2))
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And I know it -
I know it in my heart -
Right now -
Todd Hewitt -
There's nothing we can't do together -
”
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Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2))
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I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind."
"Never," I say. "Not never."
He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither."
"You promise?"
"Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly.
"I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.
”
”
Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2))
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We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?"
"I hope not," I say
”
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Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2))
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I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.
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Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1))
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Do you believe there's hope at the end?"
"No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?
”
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Patrick Ness
“
TODD!" I shout again -
And he looks at me -
And I hear my name in his Noise -
And I know it -
I know it in my heart -
Right now -
Todd Hewitt -
There's nothing we can't do together -
And we're gonna win -
”
”
Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2))
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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-
”
”
Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2))
“
Always," I say to him. "Every time.
”
”
Patrick Ness
“
Yer calling for me son, and I will answer.
”
”
Patrick Ness
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A peace that blacked yer eye,' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.'
He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. “The words of a sage,” he says, “in the voice of a hick.
”
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Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2))
“
He survives, does our Todd.
”
”
Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2))
“
I am not your enemy, Todd Hewitt,” he says one more time. “Just tell me her name and this will all stop.” I
”
”
Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2))
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Maybe our story will turn out differently if we take the left fork, maybe the bad things that are waiting to happen to us won’t happen, maybe there’s happiness at the end of the left fork and warm places with the people who love us and no Noise but no silence neither and there’s plenty of food and no one dies and no one dies and no one never never dies.Maybe.But I doubt it.
”
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Todd Hewitt
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One minute I’m standing there behind everyone and the next thing I know, I’m between Matthew and Viola, I have my knife out pointing at him, my own Noise falling like an avalanche and my mouth saying, “You best take two steps away from her and you best be taking ’em right quick.
”
”
Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1))
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Fine, fine, you just stay at home, read yer book–”
He stops himself suddenly. “Oh, damn, sorry, no, I didn’t mean that. I forgot.”
And the weird thing is, he seems sincere.
There’s a moment of quiet where his Noise pulses again with that strong feeling he’s hiding–
That something he’s trying to bury that makes him feel–
And then he says, “You know . . .” and I can see the offer coming and I don’t think I can bear it, I don’t think I could live another minute if he says it out loud. “If you ever wanted me to read it for–”
“No, Davy,” I say quickly. “No, thanks, no.”
“You sure?”
“Yes.”
“Well, the offer’s there.” His Noise goes bright again, blooming as he thinks about his new title, about women, about me and him as brothers.
And he whistles happily all the way back to town.
”
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Patrick Ness (The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2))