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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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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Fairfax
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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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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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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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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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