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As duck hunters out in the field, we see that something's changed rather rapidly in the past 10 to 20 years. And so our concerns are what happening to the duck population.


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Keep calling for me, Viola—

Cuz here I come.
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Everything is over.
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He blinks. "What?"
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And he stops struggling-

And looki...
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It ain't.
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PATRICK NESS Four lines, and the world went quiet.

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"All the best journeys do, faun.
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PATRICK NESS Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns.
NESS KINGSLEY As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has t...
PATRICK NESS A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
PATRICK NESS One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of ind...
PATRICK NESS Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.
PATRICK NESS The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in...
PATRICK NESS You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma...
PATRICK NESS That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you...
PATRICK NESS The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? ...
PATRICK NESS What's important is that I know how much you worry about shit. And what's also important is that I k...
PATRICK NESS I knew from practices that she was going to be good. She's run strong so far. She's very competitive...
SHARON NESS History ain’t so important when yer just trying to survive,” I say, spitting it out under my bre...
PATRICK NESS And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing bac...
PATRICK NESS War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much know...
PATRICK NESS Who will remember Todd?
Who will remember what he did?
Todd -
Todd -
And ...
PATRICK NESS Belief is half of healing.
PATRICK NESS Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?"
"You closed the school and burnt all the books."...
PATRICK NESS You said war should never be personal, but that’s all it’s ever been for me.
PATRICK NESS