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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
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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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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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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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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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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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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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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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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