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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

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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
Fall
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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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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 were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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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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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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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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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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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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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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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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