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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
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Fairfax
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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So we forgive each other? The crooked smile climbs up one more time. Again? And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. Always, I say to him. Every time.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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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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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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