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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Cedar City
Utah
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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.
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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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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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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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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?
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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have
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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 have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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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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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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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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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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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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