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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Teens
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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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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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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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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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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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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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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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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
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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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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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Why are some things easier to write than say?
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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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There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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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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Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?
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I love. The most reckless thing of 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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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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