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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
Part
Remember
Thinking

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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.
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It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible
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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 have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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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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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
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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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There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
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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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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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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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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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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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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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