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  You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

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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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• No one should die alone.

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• Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

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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.

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• I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

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• Water’s always moving. It’s never the same.

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• It’s not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it’s what you write.

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• I like the places where one part meets another, I think, eyes to cheek, wrist to hands.

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• Everyone has something of beauty about them.

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• And as the Society reminds us, there’s a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge doesn’t fail us.

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• Words mean what you want them to mean.

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• This is the difference between us. I live to sort, he knows how to create.

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• Because either way, whichever life I build, has to be built on truth.

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• Some things are created to be together.

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• Because in the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

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• We don’t need to understand everything.

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• I decided that it was the thoughts in your own mind that mattered more than anything else.

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• I wonder if death will always taste this good.

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• Which goes to show that caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

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Ally Condie (70)

Birth:	1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Teacher

About

Ally Condie is an American novelist. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Matched which was published by Dutton on November 30, 2010. It is the first book of a trilogy, followed by Crossed, published on November 1, 2011, and Reached, published on November 13, 2012.  Ally Condie is a former high school English teacher who lives with her husband, three sons and one daughter outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, running, eating, and listening to her husband play guitar.

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