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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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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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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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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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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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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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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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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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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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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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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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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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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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