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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Remembering
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Remember
Thinking

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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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Once you want something, everything changes.
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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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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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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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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 realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
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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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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
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Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?
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Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?
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Why are some things easier to write than say?
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Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
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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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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
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