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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.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Truth
Honesty
Much
Telling
Balance
Wound
Cutting
Ruin
Deep
Truths
Share
Ruins
Difficult
Wounds
Keep
Heal

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Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have
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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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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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I'm falling in love. I am in love. And it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.
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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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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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Once you want something, everything changes.
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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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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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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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Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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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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