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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Patrick Ness

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Patrick Ness
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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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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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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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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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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I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
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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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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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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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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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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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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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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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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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Viola blows out a thoughtful air. My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.' There's only forward, I repeat. Outward and up, she says.
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