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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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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
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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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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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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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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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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If you ever see a war, she says, not looking up from her clipboard, you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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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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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 it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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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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