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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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So we forgive each other? The crooked smile climbs up one more time. Again? And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. Always, I say to him. Every time.
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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Stories don't always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.
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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
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