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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Fairfax
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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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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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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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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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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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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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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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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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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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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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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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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