Chaos Walking Quotes

“To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“To allow someone, anyone, to suffer is the greatest sin there is.”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it’s dangerous, too, that it’s painful and risky, that it’s making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“He is worse than the others, I show. He is worst of all of them. Because– Because he knew he was doing wrong. He felt the pain of his actions– But he did not amend them, shows the Sky. The rest are worth as much as their pack animals, I show, but worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“But there’s always hope,” Ben says. “You always have to hope.”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down. It ain’t the Spackle that drove us to the end. It was ourselves.”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“Memory is stupid, ain’t it?”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“History ain’t so important when yer just trying to survive,” I say, spitting it out under my breath. “That’s actually when it’s most important,” Hildy says,”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“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,”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“Remember,” he says. “Hope.”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“War is a monster,” he says, almost to himself. “War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows.” He’s looking at me now. “And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“But then there’s her eyes and they look at you and don’t brook no arguments, don’t look like they ever doubt themselves, even when they should. Maybe they’re the eyes of a giant after all.”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“But guessing a thing ain’t knowing a thing.”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“Roads is never the fastest way to get nowhere,” the woman says. “Don’t ye know that?”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy