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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
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Alive
Never
Battle
Dead

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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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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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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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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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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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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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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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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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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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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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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Stories don't always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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