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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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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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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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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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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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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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A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
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...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
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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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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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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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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
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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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Too much talking, I say. Not enough running.
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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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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
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Here is the boy, drowning.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
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Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.
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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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A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
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