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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: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Hurt
Might
Real
Swinging
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women 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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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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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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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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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt? he says. What makes you so special? Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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Stories don't always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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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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