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Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
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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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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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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.
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And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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Poo" Manchee barks quielty to himself. "Poo, poo, poo." "Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.
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Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
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We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say.
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It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
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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.
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Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
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We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
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And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
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Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
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