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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Knives
Good
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Knife

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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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