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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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Fairfax
Virginia
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Choices 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.
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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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Here is the boy, drowning.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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Except I didn't say eff
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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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