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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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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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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.
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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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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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If you ever see a war, she says, not looking up from her clipboard, you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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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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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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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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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
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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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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more, I say to Manchee under my breath.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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Poo Manchee barks quielty to himself. Poo, poo, poo. Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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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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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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