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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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Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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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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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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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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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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