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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
Share
Ruins
Difficult
Wounds
Keep
Heal
Truth
Honesty
Much
Telling
Balance
Wound
Cutting
Ruin
Deep
Truths

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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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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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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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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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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
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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 love. The most reckless thing of all.
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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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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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