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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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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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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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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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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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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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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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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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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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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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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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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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