The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

by Patrick Ness

“WHAT ARE YOU SMILING AT?”

Not safe

happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.

I know this dog is going to die, and I don’t like knowing it, but I know it nonetheless. This dog is going to die and it’s going to be bad, a bad death, and I’m going to be upset. And if he didn’t even want a dog anyway why’d they have to give him this one when it is just going to be killed, be shot or eaten by a croc or something horrible defending this child who loves him but is clearly going to lead to his death probably in around 100 pages

All of it, everything that’s happened, is their fault!”

Not safe

He’s a good bloody dog, have I said that?

Yes and somehow he’s still alive and now I’m getting hopeful that he won’t die & that is just going to make it harder on me when he *does*

rub the ears of my dog, my stupid goddam ruddy great dog that I never wanted but who hung around anyway and who followed me thru the swamp and who bit Aaron when he was trying to choke me and who found Viola when she was lost and who’s licking my hand with his little pink tongue and whose eye is still mostly squinted shut from where Mr Prentiss Jr kicked him and whose tail is way way shorter from when Matthew Lyle cut it off when my dog – my dog – went after a man with a machete to save me and who’s right there when I need pulling back from the darkness I fall into and who tells me who I am whenever I forget.

This sounds like the realization you have just before your perfect loyal wonderful dog is killed saving you

Oh god it’s even worse than I imagined

that tears my heart in two forever and forever. And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too much and my hands are on my head and I’m rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside me.

Yeah. That.

And everything’s gonna be all right. Everything’s gonna be all right. Everything’s gonna be all right.

This sounds like the sort of thing you think right before everything is definitely not all right.

We get to the steps and it’s halfway up that she first speaks.

Not safe

“HELP!” I’m shouting as we come to it. “HELP US!”

Oh my god this book is /relentless/ it just does not *stop* I cannot properly convey how stressful it is over here

There ain’t no hope here at all.

This should be the whole book summary. Just this damn line.