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Patrick Ness Quotes about Lying

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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.

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
Lying, Believe, Knowing

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Patrick Ness
Lying, Men, World

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

Patrick Ness
Lying, People, Needs

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Patrick Ness
Crazy, Lying

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.

Patrick Ness
Crazy, Lying, People

I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?

Patrick Ness
Lying, Believe, World
Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Patrick Ness
Lying, Men, Lying Men
Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak.

Patrick Ness
Lying, Smell, Clothes

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