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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Caring
Vulnerable
Leaves
Anyone

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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'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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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
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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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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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Once you want something, everything changes.
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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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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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I love. The most reckless thing of all.
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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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