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

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Correctly
Safely
Situation
Getting
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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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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
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Why are some things easier to write than say?
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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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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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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There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
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Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.
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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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I love. The most reckless thing of all.
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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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