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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Fairfax
Virginia
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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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There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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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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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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Except I didn't say eff
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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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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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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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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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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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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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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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