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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Correctly
Safely
Situation
Getting
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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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Once you want something, everything changes.
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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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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 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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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
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