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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

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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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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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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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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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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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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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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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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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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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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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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 then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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