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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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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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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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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 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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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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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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