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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
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Beauty

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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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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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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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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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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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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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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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And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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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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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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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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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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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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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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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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Except I didn't say eff
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