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Ally Condie
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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
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Science Fiction Writer
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Cedar City
Utah
Changes
Everything
Something
More quotes by Ally Condie
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
Ally Condie
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
Ally Condie
You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
Ally Condie
I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.
Ally Condie
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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Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.
Ally Condie
I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
Ally Condie
Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
Ally Condie
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
Ally Condie
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.
Ally Condie
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
Ally Condie
This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.
Ally Condie
Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible
Ally Condie
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
Ally Condie
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
Ally Condie
How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
Ally Condie
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.
Ally Condie
Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
Ally Condie
Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?
Ally Condie