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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Idea
Ideas
Good
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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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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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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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 can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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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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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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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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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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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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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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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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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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