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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Learning
Wells
Well
Thing
Worth

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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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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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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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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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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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