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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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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Teen
Worrying
Worry
Place
Past
World

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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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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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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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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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I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.
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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 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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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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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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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 have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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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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