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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Makes
Things
Love
Probable
Unlikely
Changes
Choices
Possible

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I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.
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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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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
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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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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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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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Some things are created to be together.
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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'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.
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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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Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
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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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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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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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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
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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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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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I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
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