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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.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Feelings
Mother
Easily
Feel
Anger
Feels
Toward
Way
Loss
Fight
Feeling
Fighting

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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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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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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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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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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 love. The most reckless thing of all.
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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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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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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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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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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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We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
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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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Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?
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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
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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 is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
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Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
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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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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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