There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

—Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls

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About Patrick Ness

Portrait of Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness FRSL (born 17 October 1971) is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter. Born in the United States, Ness moved to London and holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking (2008–2010) trilogy and A Monster Calls (2011).

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You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

—Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls

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There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in Incubus Dreams

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and really being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding overman's capacity for evil.

—David Sarnoff

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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this.

—Albert Camus

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