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• You can’t kill anything that’s always moving and changing.

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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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• You can take it but it will always be mine.

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• I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it.

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• It gets harder and steeper, but not impossible.

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• They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

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• No one has the need to know anything about me.

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• The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I’m not. I’m only afraid of dying wrong.

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• The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we’re lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.

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• Death will not take the people I love. Our journey will end differently.

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• We are the ones who are alive. Here. With everything to lose.

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• There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

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

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• Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back.

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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 ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

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• When we fall in love the first time, we don’t know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we choose to love again.

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• There’s a reason they didn’t keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight.

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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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• 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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Ally Condie (70)

Birth:	1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Teacher

About

Ally Condie is an American novelist. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Matched which was published by Dutton on November 30, 2010. It is the first book of a trilogy, followed by Crossed, published on November 1, 2011, and Reached, published on November 13, 2012.  Ally Condie is a former high school English teacher who lives with her husband, three sons and one daughter outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, running, eating, and listening to her husband play guitar.

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