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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

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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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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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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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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
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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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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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