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Once you want something, everything changes.

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Changes
Everything
Something

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Teens find out a lot from other teens.
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When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
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Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
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Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
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I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.
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In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.
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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
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Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
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I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
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So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.
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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
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