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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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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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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 don't always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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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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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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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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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 good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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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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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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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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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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