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The Knife of Never Letting Go
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"The Knife of Never Letting Go" Quotes

A young boy living in a world where everyone can hear each other's thoughts discovers a secret that shatters everything he thought he knew.

Quotes

The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

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identitychaos

The world is a swamp of lies. You just have to pick your way through.

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truthdeception

War is like a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows.

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warevil

The bible's just words. That's all. Just words. The only thing that matters is what you do.

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religionaction

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you alive, but it's dangerous, too, it's painful and risky, it's a bad, bad thing to have.

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hoperisk

Sometimes you do it to save your own skin. Sometimes you do it to save someone else's.

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self-preservationsacrifice

You do what you have to do to find the truth, even if it's dangerous.

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truthdanger

Your noise is the truth. All the rest of it is just so much garbage.

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truthself-awareness

The world is an ugly place. I hope you don't see that, but I do.

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perspectivereality

The way you think, Todd, is the way you live.

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mindsetlifestyle