And the Ocean Was Our Sky
Patrick Ness
Top 10 Best Quotes
“For there are devils in the deep, but worst are the ones we make.”
“For who needs devils when you have men?”
“Will the world end in darkness because it is foretold? Or because there will be those who believe it so strongly they will make it so?”
“Maybe it takes a devil to fight a devil,” I said. “But at the end of that fight, Bathsheba,” he said, “don’t only devils remain?”
“The great trick of the devil is to make you want to see him. But it is only when you see him that you fear him. And by then, it is too late.”
“When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?”
“His last word had been my name. The last word he heard was me speaking his own. Did this mean anything? And if it only meant something for the two of us, did that reduce it?”
“You imagine the devil, you make the devil.”
“Do all these things, but do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalized.”
“But I begin to wonder if doubt is better than the wrong knowledge.”
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