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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
Thinking
Remembering
Part
Remember

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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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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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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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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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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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There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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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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Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?
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Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?
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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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Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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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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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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