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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
Teenagers
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Teenager
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World

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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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And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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If you ever see a war, she says, not looking up from her clipboard, you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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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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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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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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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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As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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