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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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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor? She smiles. He doesn't stand a chance.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
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You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you. ~pg 92
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Schooling ain't life. Ain't it? she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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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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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
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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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