The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1) Quotes

And then one day Mayor Prentiss decided to burn all the books, every single one of them, even the ones in men's homes, cuz apparently books were detrimental as well. (2.12)

And when you walk by the Mayor's House, you can hear him, hear him and the men closest to him, his deputies and things, and they're always doing these thought exercises, these counting things and i...

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. (1.1)

So the thing to remember, the thing that's most important of all that I might say in this here telling of things is that Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a differen...

Also true: going to the swamp to pick a few apples is not a job for a man cuz men are never allowed to be so idle. Now, I won't officially become a man for thirty more days. I've lived twelve years...

I'd better not get another ruddy dog when my birthday comes. What I want this year is a hunting knife like the one Ben carries on the back of his belt. Now that's a present for a man. (1.65)

It's a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that's what gets lost in all that Noise. (2.4)

"Language, young Todd," he says, "binds us like prisoners on a chain. Haven't you heard anything from yer church, boy?" And then he says his most familiar preaching. "If one of us falls, we all fal...