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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
Beauty
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
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I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.
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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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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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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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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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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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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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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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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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