Ally Condie Quotes

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl.

Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions... He learns by watching.

Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.

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

I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is

We need you.""I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.

Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.

Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.

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

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

She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.

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,

Reaching and reached. Cassia

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.

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.

The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.

...I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.

But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back

And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you. I like lost.

I draw in a ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry, when you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.

There is so much want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia.

People can be miracles.

The rain turns lighter, turns to snow. And I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be.

That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

I'm so

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

So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him is so strong I can hardly stand it... I think of him, I think of him, I think of him.

They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place.

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

I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.

For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.

...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.

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.

It was a little thing, a baby tree, but still it tangled with things around it and required care to move. And when she pulled it out, it's roots still clung to Earth from it's old home.

I never needed the Society, " she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)

It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel.

They were too much to carryso i left them behindfor a new life, in a new placebut no one forgot who i wasi didn'tand neither did the people who watchthey watched for yearsthey watch now

No, ' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been.

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