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It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Choices
Chance
Another
Thing
Make
Never
Choice

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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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We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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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 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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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
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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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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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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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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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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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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 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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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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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
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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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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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