Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more an…

Patrick Ness
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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? ✨ The Knife of Never Letting Go. Book by Patrick Ness, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2008.
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And otherwise normal men become monsters, too. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Never Letting Go, Candlewick Press (MA)
Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Never Letting Go, … ▶
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. ✨ Patrick Ness (2008). The Knife of Ne … ▶
If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean. ✨ The Ask and the Answer. Book by Patrick Ness, www.theguardian.com. 2009.
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 … ▶

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? ✨ The Knife of Never Letting Go. Book by Patrick Ness, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2008.

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