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I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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James Brendan Patterson
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Time for bed.” I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure.
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Yeah sure, why not? i said, making a mental note to get a good look at his wings. For all I knew, they were remote-controlled and duct taped to his back.
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I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.
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Hey. Not sure what’s going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don’t do anything stupid. Don’t come after me-your better on your own. See you. F I sat on the edge of the bed, holding the note. Okay, so Fang had looked up vague in the dictionary and this was what it had said to write.
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Great, they give blind kids guns, I said, trying to lessen his horror. I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.
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You have a memory chip that small implanted in you,” he verified. I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.
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I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer.
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guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority. well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.
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Please, sit down, Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.
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Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.
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Angel raised her hand. Excuse me. What does LTC stand for? She blinked innocently. Loving Tender Care?Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half. Lieutenant colonel, he sputtered.
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Excellent. They were flammable.
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Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
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Iggy’s spine tightened, his face like ice. When he’d been at the School, they’d tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops.
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Tears were dripping onto my dress, but I wasn't making any sound. There was no sound to express thid kind of pain. I didn't want to move, didn't want to do anything. Fang was not waiting for me out in the living room. Tomorrow morning, when I woke up, Fang would still be gone.
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