The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

by Patrick Ness

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don’t hurt?

“We are the choices we make,

want your faith in me, Todd, and faith with proof is no faith at all.”

“We are the choices we make,

“The Noise was the only way they communicated,”

They gained insight on the effectiveness of the cure at the cost of taking away the only way they could communicate.

“War makes monsters of men,”

The title of the next book in the series

“A thing worth learning is worth learning well.”

In the early hours of this morning, as we dressed Maddy in her white burial cloths, she said, If he wants a war, he’s got a war. We haven’t even started fighting.

“He’s the President of Lies, my girl. He will lie so well you’ll believe it’s the truth. The Devil tells the best stories. Didn’t your mama teach you that?”

“If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.”

And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. “Always,” I say to him. “Every time.”