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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 have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

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Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?

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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.

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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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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

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You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

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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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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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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?

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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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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible

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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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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

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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 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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Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

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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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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

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I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I'm too afraid that it will hurt.

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

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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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In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

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Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

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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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Ally Condie

Ally Condie

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Bio: Allyson Braithwaite Condie is an American writer of young adult fiction, primarily under the name Ally Condie. She wrote the Matched trilogy, a science fiction dystopia, whose first book, Matched, was a New York Times Best Seller.

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