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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
Never
Battle
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Alive

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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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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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