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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up
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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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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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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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