Ally Condie > Quotes

“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?”
― Allyson Braithwaite Condie, First Day

“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Once you want something, everything changes.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Why are some things easier to write than say?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham)”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“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.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“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)”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I mean so many things: My heart will always fly his name. I won't go gentle. I'll find a way to soar like the angels in the stories and I will find him. And I know he understands as he looks straight at me, deep into my eyes. His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know. Tears well up but I blink them away. Because if there is one moment in my life that I want to see clearly, this is it.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he just lost. He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I love.
The most reckless thing of all.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“No one should die alone.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.”
― Ally Condie, Matched