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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

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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
Truth
Anything
Important
Carry

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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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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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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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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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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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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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