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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Forever
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Back
Always
Never
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Alone

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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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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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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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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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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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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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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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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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