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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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Here is the boy, drowning.
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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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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
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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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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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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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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 said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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