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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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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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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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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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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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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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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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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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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'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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