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In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make. Ally Condie

Life Good Own Difficult Bad Find Pretty Pretty Good My Own Between Most Make Good And Bad Choices Choosing

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. Ally Condie

Teacher Time Good Guitar Husband Economics Met Side Analytical Addition One Of The Things About Poetry He Stuff Liked Wrote Him Always Go His Mathematical Lots Very Decided English English Teacher Things Played

I was born and raised in southern Utah. Ally Condie

Born Southern Utah Raised

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. Amelia Barr

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. Amelia Barr

Me Inevitable Hopeful Ready Always Found

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. Amelia Barr

Women Tears Men Alike Seem Seldom Know Smiles Little Little Men

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. Amelia Barr

Woman Too Corner Sorrow Make Quiet Far Far Away Away

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves. Amelia Barr

Buy Pay Ourselves Part

It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy. Amity Gaige

Saying Democracy Culture Comedy Political First Before Evolve Must Without Continue Goes Stable Endure Literature Creating

I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart. Amity Gaige

Rights Heart Legal Law Parents Human Heart Kidnapping System Parental Touched Divorce Deal Legal System Human Children Inadequacy Millions

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others. Amity Gaige

Poet Others Has-Been Bad Pretty Been Oh

I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home. Amity Gaige

Home Family Marriage Think Our Slip Ourselves About Written Because Reveal Truths Quite Being Where Mean Reputations Keep Keeps

For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories. Amity Gaige

Life Me People World Job College Before Several Telling Folded Would Some Had Come Years Began Campus Just Stories Center Urban Worked Reason Kept

Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir! Amity Gaige

Will Would Give Write Writes Nobody Like Sentence Ever

I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union. Amity Gaige

Life Family School Parents Few Every Birth Cried Right Place Took Earth Ease Says Born Never Days Like Comfort Felt Lore Came Were Children Place Bus Rooted Regularity Union Many Even Keel Right Rained

Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth. Amity Gaige

Truth Like Self-Esteem Quietly

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog. Amity Gaige

Me Dog Parents Other Several Worst Tricks Paranoid Small Joined Merely Identity Occurred Repertoire Intelligent Behaviors Suspicions Which Whole Each Keep Designed Set

Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men. Amity Gaige

You Eyes Women People Psychic Men Power Few Own Enter Lodge Running Parenthood Only Ready Few People Sweat Your Prepared

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation. Amity Gaige

People Nation Weak Could Powerful Powerful Nation Separate Peaceful

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly. Amity Gaige

When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel. Amor Towles

Time Me Memory First Gentleman Lobby Later Giant Visit Visited Restaurant Prompted Some Simply Tourist Glass Hotel Over Moscow First Time Years Off Historic Ceiling Curious Short Wandered Grand Painted Set

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