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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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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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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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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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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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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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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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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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