Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?” I ask.“ We thought he might, ” my mother says.“ Why didn’t you stop him?”“ We didn’t want to take away your choices, ” my mother says.“ But Grandfather never did tell me about the Rising, ” I say.“ I think he wanted you to find your own way, ” my mother says. She smiles. “In that way, he was a true rebel. I think that’s why he chose that argument with your father as his favorite memory. Though he was upset when the fight happened, later he came to see that your father was strong in choosing his own path, and he admired him for it. Ally Condie
Choose your love. Love your choice.
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Thomas S. Monson
Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure:...
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Lauren Oliver
Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..
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Cassandra Clare
Dante laughed. "No cold soup, no goat cheese. I'll make a mental note. And no Gottfried Curse.""And for you it's no food at all. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>No sleep. And no tunnels."" I'm low maintenance."" Is that what you are? Because I've been trying to figure...
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Yvonne Woon
You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.
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Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By Ally Condie
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to...
Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not...
Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it...
That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)
Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.
