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

Patrick Ness

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
Picking
Matters
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Matter

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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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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 the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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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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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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