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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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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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I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.
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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 love. The most reckless thing of all.
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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible
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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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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
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Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?
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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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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 it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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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.
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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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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
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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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I'm falling in love. I am in love. And it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.
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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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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at 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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