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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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Even
Time
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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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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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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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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Except I didn't say eff
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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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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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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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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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If you ever see a war, she says, not looking up from her clipboard, you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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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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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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