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I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Better
Nothing
Gotta
Ahead
Behinds
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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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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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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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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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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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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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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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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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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