Ally Condie Quotes
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I love. The most reckless thing of all.
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Why are some things easier to write than say?
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I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.
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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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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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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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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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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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Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
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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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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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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
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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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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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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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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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Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?
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Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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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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We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
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I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.
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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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Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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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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Teens find out a lot from other teens.
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