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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.
Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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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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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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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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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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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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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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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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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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