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

by Patrick Ness

Without pain, it feels almost like I don’t have a body at all, almost like I’m a ghost, sitting in a chair, blinded and eternal. Like I’m dead already. Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don’t hurt?

“But it does more than that,” Maddy says. “The Spackle don’t speak, you see. They can click their mouths a little but it’s hardly more than like when we snap our fingers.”

Sounds like communication to me

“you’ll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appal you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.” “War makes monsters of men,”