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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
Never
Choice
Choices
Chance
Another
Thing
Make

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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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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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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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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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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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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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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible
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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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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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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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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
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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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