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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Literary Critic
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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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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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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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