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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
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Stories
Truth
Anything
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?No, he said. They're the ones who are asking for too little.
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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.
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