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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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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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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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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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