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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Literary Critic
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Fairfax
Virginia
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
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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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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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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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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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If you ever see a war, she says, not looking up from her clipboard, you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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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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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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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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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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Except I didn't say eff
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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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