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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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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Whatever
Change
Everything
Trying
Make
Time
Either

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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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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
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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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Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
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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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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
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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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I love. The most reckless thing of all.
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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
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