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Category: Ally Condie

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

Change, Beauty, Future

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

Past, World, Me

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.

Time, Good, Poetry

We do not kiss. We do nothing but hold on and breathe, but still I know. I cannot go gently now. Not even for the sake of my parents, my family.Not even for Xander.

go-gently, know

Until now, I’ve never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel

synchronicity, tiny-people-in-a-big-world, universe

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

honesty, integerity

But if you were matched,” I say softly, “What do you think she’d be like?””You,” he says, almost before I’ve finished. “You,

beautiful, beauty, cassia, ky, love, lovers, loving, matched, matches

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.

What did you think about?” I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won’t do it again. And besides, I wasn’t thinking about Xander either. “I thought about angels,” I say.”Angels?””You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven.” “Do you think anyone believes in them anymore?” He asks.”I don’t know. No. Do you?””I believe in you,” he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. “That’s more faith than I ever thought I’d have.

angels, believe, cassia, ky

Ky gives me three gifts for my birthday. A poem, a kiss and the hopeless, beautiful belief that things might work. When I open my eyes… I say, “I didn’t give you anything for your birthday, i don’t even know when it is.” And he says, “Don’t worry about that” and I say, “What can I do?” and he answers, “Let me believe in this, all of this, and you believe it too.”And I do.

beautiful-belief, believe, birthday-gifts

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.

dystopia, romance, science-fiction, young-adult-romance

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.

death, dictatorship, fantasy, love, young-adult