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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 all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete.Ally Condie
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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.Ally Condie
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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.Ally Condie
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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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I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he isAlly Condie
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If you love someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how can you do nothing at all? You might as well take their words out of the dirt and try to snatch them from the wind. Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back.Ally Condie
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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.Ally Condie
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The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.Ally Condie
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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.Ally Condie
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The rain turns lighter, turns to snow. And I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be.Ally Condie