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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
Part
Correctly
Safely
Situation
Getting
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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 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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Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?
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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 have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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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 love. The most reckless thing of all.
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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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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 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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Some things are created to be together.
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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
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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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