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 More Quotes by Ally Condie More Quotes From Ally Condie And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. Ally Condie strange absence feels I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys. Ally Condie matched strength wonder I'm falling in love. I am in love. And it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different. Ally Condie i-love-you falling-in-love facts Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving let's 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 beautiful love hands Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning. Ally Condie color real spring 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. Ally Condie girl mom opportunity If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely. Ally Condie bones use together I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content. Ally Condie righteous life There is something extraordinary about the first time falling. Ally Condie crush fall firsts Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely. Ally Condie situation reading Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose? Ally Condie loving-someone doe mean Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night? Ally Condie night life way Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more. Ally Condie things-change want-something want 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. Ally Condie bad good my-own life 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. Ally Condie good guitar time teacher I was born and raised in southern Utah. Ally Condie i-was-born born southern utah
