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Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.Patrick Ness
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We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.Patrick Ness
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People see stories everywhere... We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true... We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.Patrick Ness
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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.Patrick Ness
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Nothing says awkward like coming in your pants while dry humping.Jay McLean
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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.Patrick Ness
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Every Princess has one Prince to share the loves and joys of life, and do you know how that Princess knows which Prince is hers?”“ How Mommy?”“From the kiss.”“ But how?”“ The very first kiss with your Prince will change your life. When your lips touch for the first time, the earth will feel like it stops moving, but in the same moment, the world around you spins. It’ll feel like fireworks in the night sky. Like a bright light in the darkness. You’ll feel your heart beat fast in your ears but silence will surround you. And when you pull apart and open your eyes and look at each other, and really see each other. You’ll know it in that moment, through that kiss, that you’ve just let someone own a piece of your heart, and you’ll live happily ever after. .Jay McLean
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I don't believe in guardian angels, " Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.Patrick Ness
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He really is alone in whatever hell this is. Completely and utterly alone.' It isn't, ' he thinks, as he trudges back toward his house, 'the most unfamiliar feeling in the world.Patrick Ness
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I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.Patrick Ness
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He's seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right there in front of him. Billions and billions of stars. Billions and billions of worlds. All of them, all of those seemingly endless possibilities, not fictional, but real, out there, existing, right now. There is so much more out there than just the world he knows, so much more than his tiny Washington town, so much more than even London. Or England. Or hell, for that matter. So much more that he'll never see. So much more that he'll never get to. So much that he can only glimpse enough of to know that it's forever beyond his reach.Patrick Ness
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So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your foreverJay McLean