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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
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Fairfax
Virginia
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Honest
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Teenagers
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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Know yourself and go in swinging.
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That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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You can eff off, too, I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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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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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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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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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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