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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Life
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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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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?No, he said. They're the ones who are asking for too little.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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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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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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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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Except I didn't say eff
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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
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