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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Righteous
Content
Tried
Never
Life

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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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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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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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Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?
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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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Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
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In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.
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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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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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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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I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
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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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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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Teens find out a lot from other teens.
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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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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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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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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
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Why are some things easier to write than say?
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