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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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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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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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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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We can save the world, I say, trying to smile. You and me.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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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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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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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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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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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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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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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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