Ally Condie quotes

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own. (Ally Condie)

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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Teens find out a lot from other teens.

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In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

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There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

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

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

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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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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible. (Ally Condie)

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

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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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Why are some things easier to write than say?

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

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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

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

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

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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

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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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Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose? (Ally Condie)

There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

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I love. The most reckless thing of all.

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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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One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

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