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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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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?No, he said. They're the ones who are asking for too little.
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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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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
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I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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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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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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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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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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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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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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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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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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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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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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Except I didn't say eff
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