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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
Alive
Never
Battle
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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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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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.
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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
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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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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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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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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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