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Stories don’t always have happy endings.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
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Endings
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Stories

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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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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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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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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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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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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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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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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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