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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Stories
Things
Wildest
Hunt
Hunts
Chase
Bite
Bites

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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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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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Things change, but they stay the same.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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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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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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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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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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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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Here is the boy, drowning.
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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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