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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: 52
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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Waiting
Nothing
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Good

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Stories don't always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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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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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians 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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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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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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