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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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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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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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...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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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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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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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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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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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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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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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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