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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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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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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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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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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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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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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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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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