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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
Bite
Bites
Stories
Things
Wildest
Hunt
Hunts
Chase

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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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So we forgive each other? The crooked smile climbs up one more time. Again? And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. Always, I say to him. Every time.
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