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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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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
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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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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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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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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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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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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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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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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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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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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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