Ally Condie

“Now Death usurps my premium”

— Ally Condie

“Its okay to wonder.”

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“When it rains, I remember”

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“The word is yes.”

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“Knowledge doesn't fail us.”

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“No one should die alone.”

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“Do not go gentle”

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“Ky’s with us.”

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“Are you congratulating me on my life, or on my death?”

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“None of that is supposed to matter. But somehow, it does.”

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“-at least in the collective mind of the Society.”

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“You left me like he left you.”

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“Which one is the true one, I don’t ask, they don’t tell.”

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“For a moment, I'm part of it all. Then I'm just apart”

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“Things happen whether you deserve them or not”

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“Dreams don't smell or sound as strong as this.”

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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.”

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“The black behind me doesn’t worry me; neither do the stars ahead.”

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“[..] I know he won't stop fighting. Even if it's the kind of quiet fight on the inside that you can't always see.”

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“ I like the places where one part meets another , I think, eyes to cheek, wrist to hands .”

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“I stare up into the dark with an ache in my chest that makes it hard to breathe. But not hard to…

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“They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing.”

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“My mother painted with water," he says. "And my father played with fire.”

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“Earth is a giant stone, rolling and turning through the sky. And we’re all on it together. I do believe that.”

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“The Rising is not what you imagine, it's not Aberations and Anomalies and rebels and rougues running free. It's a structure. A…

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“You're here," he says, breathing hard and hungry. Sweat and dirt cover his face, and he looks at me as though I'm…

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“Angels?' 'You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven.' 'Do you think anyone believes in them…

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“But he is as we all are: light as air, transient as wisps of cloud before the sun, beautiful and fleeting, and…

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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…

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“think of him risking everything each time he slips one napkin into his pocket. All these years he’s been so careful, but…

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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…

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“Some people think the stars must look closer up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they realy…

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“When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of…

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“Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at…

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“So many times in my life I’ve felt as though looking at Em is like seeing another variation of myself, but I…

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“Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in it's tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between…

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“It's not all gone. She loved someone before and so did I. The Society and the Rising and the world are all…

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“Any other questions?" "Just one," I say. "What color are your eyes?" I want to know what he thinks, how he sees…

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“Back in Borough I ran barefoot on the grass to try to help Ky. Out here I wear heavy boots and have…

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“You told me once," I say to Ky, holding up the bud for him to see and then pressing it into his…

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