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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Cannot
Change
Life
Unwilling
Courage
Journey
Move
Moving

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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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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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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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I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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