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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.

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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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If you ever see a war, she says, not looking up from her clipboard, you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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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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