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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
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Wildest
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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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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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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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