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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

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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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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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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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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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