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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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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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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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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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...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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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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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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Things change, but they stay the same.
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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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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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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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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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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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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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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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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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