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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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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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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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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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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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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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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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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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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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Except I didn't say eff
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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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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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
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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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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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