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Patrick Ness, born on October 17, 1971, is a renowned author from the United Kingdom. Known for his unique writing style and engaging narratives, Ness has made a significant impact in the realm of young adult literature. His works often delve into complex human relationships and emotional experiences, resonating with both young readers and literary critics.

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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.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Looks May Treasure Useless Maps Librarian Right Direction

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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?”

Knows Want Left Beats Towns

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“How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”

Ifs Knows Hurt Alive Do You Know

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“I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?”

Knows World Believe May Enough Lasts Remember Lying Courses Born Died Towns Surprise Raised Noise Mess Sickness Crowded Swamps

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.”

“That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.”

Ifs Knows World Looks Know How Useless Librarian

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“No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Remember Doubt Okay Who To Trust

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“Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.”

Knows Said Stills Ends Helping One Day Mark Blind Ministers Prime Bully Prime Minister Annoyed Charisma God Help God Help Us

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“I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak.”

Knows Feelings Faces Lying Speak Know How Alive Mines Clothes Weight Safety Fingers Smell Touching Warmth Time Passes Really True Roughness

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“But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.”

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“And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together -”

Knows Heart Together My Heart Right Now

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“Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.”

Knows Mean Stills Fingers Staying Parting You Again Cuz

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“And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.”

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“Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.”

Knows Running Life Is Finished

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.”

Knows Doe Worst

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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.”

Knows Doe Shows Action Pain Felt Animal Sky Worst Packs Amen

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“I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.”

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.”

Knows Song Promise One Day Deceiving I Promise Sad Song

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“Know yourself and go in swinging.”

Knows Know Yourself

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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.”

Knows Want Wells Said

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“There's always beauty, if you know where to look.”

Ifs Knows Looks

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“Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.”

Ifs Knows Real Might Hurt Being Real It Hurts Know Yourself

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Born: October 17, 1971
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