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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Smile
Save
Trying
World

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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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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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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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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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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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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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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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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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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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