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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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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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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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Some things are created to be together.
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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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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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Why are some things easier to write than say?
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It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
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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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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
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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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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
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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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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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Once you want something, everything changes.
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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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Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
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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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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
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