“I’m going to do. I want to look at the microcard without my parents or Bram glancing” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“My mother painted with water," he says. "And my father played with fire.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“But my father goes on."And I've noticed other things,too.I think you're in love with Ky Markham.I think you want to find him,wherever… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I imagine giving someone such a gift and then having it returned. Parents are always giving things that are not taken.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“We do not kiss. We do nothing but hold on and breathe, but still I know. I cannot go gently now. Not… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“My mother holds Bram tightly. I draw i ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“They’ll leave you alone if you walk away,” I said. “You have to ignore them.” “You sound like my parents.” Leo sounded… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Much as I love looking at the stars, I never learned to guide by them. I mark my course by people; Xander,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Good-bye,” I say to Grandfather, and to my father, and I hold the tube in the river and pause a moment. We… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“My father has always broken the rules for those he loves, just as my mother has always kept them for the same… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When I was small my mother tried to teach me the colors. "Blue," she said, pointing to the sky. And "blue" again,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes paper is only paper," my mothers says. "Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?” I ask. “We thought he might,” my mother says. “Why didn’t you… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“But I also know we can’t plan on anyone else rescuing us. We have to do it ourselves.” — Ally Condie Copy Share
“Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“She knows how things fit together and move, but so few people understand her. She’s the most solitary person I’ve ever known.” — Ally Condie Copy Share
“There are many of them in the world, I think, good men and women with their frail deeds. Wondering what might have been, how… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“You wouldn't think you can forget but sometimes you can—for a moment or two. I've never been able to decide if I think that’s… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“It doesn't matter much anyway. I haven't slept well since he left. I can't dream. In some ways, that's the hardest part of having… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“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… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and the part… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“I wonder if they'll be able to resist. It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain.” — Ally Condie Copy Share
“I think of how many invisible injuries are possible. Ones scored on your heart, your brain, your bones. How do we all stand? I… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“I see a glint in her eye as she looks at me and it makes me smile. Hold our breath? she seems to say.… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“She’s trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted.” — Ally Condie Copy Share
![“My father has always broken the rules for those he loves, just as my mother has always kept them for the same reason. [...] 'We can't give you the life you want,' my father says, his eyes wet. He looks at my mother and she nods at him to continue. 'We wish we could. But we can help you have a…” quote by Ally Condie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4e7/ally-condie-434_father_my-father-has-always-broken-the-rules-fo_3079247.jpg)
