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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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