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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Knowing
Interesting
Write
Makes
Writing

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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 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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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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Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?
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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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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 have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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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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We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
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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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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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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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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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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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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
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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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Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
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