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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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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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Some things are created to be together.
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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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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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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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I'm falling in love. I am in love. And it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.
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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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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
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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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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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Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
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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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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
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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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I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
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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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