Itโs 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 thatโs what gets lost in all that Noise.
Patrick NessChoices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
Patrick NessCept for Ben, who I canโt describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I wonโt, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldnโt be the worst choice you could make that morning.
Patrick Ness