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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Hurts
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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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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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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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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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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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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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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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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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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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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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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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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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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