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I love. The most reckless thing of all.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Thing
Love
Reckless

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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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I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.
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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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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
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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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I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.
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Some things are created to be together.
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Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
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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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I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
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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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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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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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If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.
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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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Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
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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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