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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
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Picking
Matters
Fall
Matter

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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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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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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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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?No, he said. They're the ones who are asking for too little.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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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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