It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes…

Patrick Ness
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It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Never Letting Go, Candlewick Press (MA)
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It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Never Letting Go, Candlewick Press (MA)

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