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And then his noise falls completely silent-

And he stops struggling-

And looking right into my eyes-

He dies.

My Todd dies.


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PATRICK NESS We're just as screwed up and brave and false and loyal and wrong and right as anyone else.
PATRICK NESS If you can't, continue to be nice to them. Eventually, they may start being nice. A bully wants to h...
CARA NESS Who thought I would be Miss Louisa County?
CARA NESS That means I was born with all the bones in my head grown together. I had to have two operations whe...
CARA NESS See, almost every single one of you raised your hands. I also was teased when I was a little younger...
CARA NESS I had to miss school, and I had to have half my head shaved.
CARA NESS You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looki...
ELIOT NESS Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority o...
ELIOT NESS Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the ...
ELIOT NESS Jim knew the word about The Legend of Bagger Vance was that Matt Damon didn't really look like a gol...
TOM NESS Possibly it wasn't too important for the world to know that we couldn't be bought, but I did want Al...
ELIOT NESS John Roberts' record is extensive and troubling.
DEBRA NESS Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the ...
ELIOT NESS It's hard to get people to understand what the court means in their daily lives.
DEBRA NESS It's unbelievable how poorly informed we are, how little information we have to go on.
DEBRA NESS That means a company could have a 'No Women' or 'No African-Americans' hiring policy, and that would...
DEBRA NESS John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's r...
DEBRA NESS In the end, he refused to commit to upholding the core principles of Roe.
DEBRA NESS We must oppose his confirmation as chief justice even more strenuously because, in that post, he wou...
DEBRA NESS This vote is painful proof that a majority of senators will not stand up for women's rights, civil r...
DEBRA NESS Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority o...
ELIOT NESS Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns.
NESS KINGSLEY If we don't get this done, the very soul of Minnesota will be lost.
LANCE NESS The problem is, hunters and anglers have day jobs. They're lunch-pail sort of guys. They can't take ...
LANCE NESS In my opinion, it was probably the worst case of legislation and bad acting I've seen in 20 years. I...
LANCE NESS Since everybody benefits from our natural resources, shouldn't everybody have to pay for them?
LANCE NESS We think it's an important work showing some of the loopholes in the current wetlands law.
LANCE NESS We might be the land of 10,000 lakes, but if the land of 10,000 lakes are 10,000 dead lakes or 10,00...
LANCE NESS As duck hunters out in the field, we see that something's changed rather rapidly in the past 10 to 2...
LANCE NESS