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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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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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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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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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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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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
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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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Except I didn't say eff
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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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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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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