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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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If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.
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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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It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
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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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Why are some things easier to write than say?
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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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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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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
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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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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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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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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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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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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
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I love. The most reckless thing of all.
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I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
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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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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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