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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: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Tragedy
Biggest
Friend
Heard
Ever

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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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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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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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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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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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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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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.
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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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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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