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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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Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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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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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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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible
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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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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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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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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
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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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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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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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Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?
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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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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
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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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Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
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