Ally Condie - I'm so tired. Once, I wanted to watch the floods...

I'm so tired. Once, I wanted to watch the floods coming into a canyon, to stand on the edge and see it happen, on ground that was safe but shaking. I thought, Now I think it might be a terrifying, bright relief to stand on the canyon floor and see the wall of water coming down, and to know and before you could even complete the thought, you would be swallowed, and whole.