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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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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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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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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
Patrick Ness
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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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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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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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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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
Patrick Ness
Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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.
Patrick Ness
Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
Patrick Ness