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Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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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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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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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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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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...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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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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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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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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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?No, he said. They're the ones who are asking for too little.
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Except I didn't say eff
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
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