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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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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
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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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Some things are created to be together.
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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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Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?
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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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Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have
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I love. The most reckless thing of all.
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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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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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We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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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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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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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
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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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Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
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