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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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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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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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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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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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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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Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up
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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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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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