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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
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
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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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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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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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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Things change, but they stay the same.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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