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Know yourself and go in swinging.
Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Fairfax
Virginia
Swinging
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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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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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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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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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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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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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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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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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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