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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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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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Here is the boy, drowning.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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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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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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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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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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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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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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