He's never taught to dance, and yet he's guiding me.He dosen't notice because he's concentrating so hard on what he dosen't have-- what he thinks he can't do

Ally Condie

Stichwörter: cassia-reyes



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I weave the papers through the branches, in a long loop. Up and down, my knees bending. My arms above my head, like the girls I saw once in a painting in a cave. There is a rhythm to this, a keeping of time. I wonder if I'm dancing.

Ally Condie

Stichwörter: reached



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I don't know where I find the air and I keep getting the words wrong: From out our bourne of death and space the flood will wash me far- but it doesn't even matter. I never knew that words might not matter.

Ally Condie

Stichwörter: poetry



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Hope looks like a footprint, a half footprint where someone grew careless and stepped into soft mud that later hardened too thick to blow away in the evening and morning winds.

Ally Condie


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Only the sun is in the sky. Nothing flies. There are no angels here.

Ally Condie


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Things here are so different. Poisoned rivers, softened stone. You never know exactly what you're getting into. What will hold and what will give way

Ally Condie


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Then, quick, he flips the fish out onto the bank. It flops and gasps for air, its body slick.
We all watch the fish die.

Ally Condie


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

Ally Condie

Stichwörter: hopelessness



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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.

Ally Condie

Stichwörter: learning



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I could write paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.

Ally Condie

Stichwörter: imagination creation



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