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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
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Wells
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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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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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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So we forgive each other? The crooked smile climbs up one more time. Again? And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. Always, I say to him. Every time.
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Except I didn't say eff
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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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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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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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