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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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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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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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...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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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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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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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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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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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?No, he said. They're the ones who are asking for too little.
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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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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