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Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
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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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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
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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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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
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I'll do it, Todd, I whisper. I'll come with you. And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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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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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.
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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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Things change, but they stay the same.
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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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I was only following orders, the Mayor mocks. The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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