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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
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Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Beauty
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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 only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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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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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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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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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?No, he said. They're the ones who are asking for too little.
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