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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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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields 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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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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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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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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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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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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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.
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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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