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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
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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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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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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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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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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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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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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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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...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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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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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