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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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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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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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