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Things change, but they stay the same.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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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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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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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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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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Here is the boy, drowning.
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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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Except I didn't say eff
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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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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