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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Knowing
Interesting
Write
Makes
Writing

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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.
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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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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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We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
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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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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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Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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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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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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There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
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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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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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Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
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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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I love. The most reckless thing of all.
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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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