Patrick Ness

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— Patrick Ness

His absence is so big it's like he's there.

— Patrick Ness

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."

— Patrick Ness

Not everyone

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And I put my hand on her arm to stop her rowing.

— Patrick Ness

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.

— Patrick Ness

And then his noise falls completely silent-

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Death is not the end.

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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

— Patrick Ness