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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
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
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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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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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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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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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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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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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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
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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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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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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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