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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.

Patrick Ness

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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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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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
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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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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
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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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Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up
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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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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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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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