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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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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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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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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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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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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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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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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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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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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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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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