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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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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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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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You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true
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Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. You gotta be kidding. I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a Fork ain't it?)
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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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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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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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'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
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Knowledge is dangerous. ~pg 53
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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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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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
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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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We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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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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