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Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Past
World
Teen
Worrying
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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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When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
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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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Why are some things easier to write than say?
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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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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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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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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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We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
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This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.
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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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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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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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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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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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Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?
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