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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
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Wells
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Worth

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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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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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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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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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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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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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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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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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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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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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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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