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Stories don’t always have happy endings.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Endings
Happy
Stories
Always

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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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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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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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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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