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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.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Fighting
Free
Dystopia
Read
Hoping
Things
Root
People
Roots
Bigger
Break

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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 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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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
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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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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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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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