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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
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Much
World
Otherwise
Wonder

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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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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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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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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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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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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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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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So we forgive each other? The crooked smile climbs up one more time. Again? And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. Always, I say to him. Every time.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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