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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Even
Time
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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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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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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 will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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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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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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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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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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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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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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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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