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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: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
Wells
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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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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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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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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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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