Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are--how impossible to reach.

Ally Condie
About This Quote

In this quote, the author is telling the reader that you cannot reach the stars from wherever you are. You can only imagine that if you had been born in a different time, you would have been able to reach them.

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