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Why are some things easier to write than say?

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Cedar City
Utah
Easier
Write
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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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It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
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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.
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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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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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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
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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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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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Teens find out a lot from other teens.
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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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I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
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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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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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Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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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's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
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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.
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