Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard. — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It was as though I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Then she asked me the color of my eyes. In that moment I realized that loving each other felt more dangerous-more like… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Good-byes are like this. You can’t always mark them well at the moment of separation—no matter how deep they cut.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have. — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When we fall in love the first time, we don’t know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Watching Ky wake is better than a sunrise. One moment, he's still and down deep, and the next moment I can see… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“There is something extraordinary about the first time falling. But it feels even better to find myself standing on solid ground, with… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“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… — 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
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I watched Leo and I realized that he also knew how it felt to be different. To want big things in a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I love you." Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Our time together feels like a storm, like wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Finding him has been the only thing for so long. Even without a map, even without the compass, I know I can… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When we fall in love the first time, we don't know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“So many times in my life I’ve felt as though looking at Em is like seeing another variation of myself, but I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“You told me once," I say to Ky, holding up the bud for him to see and then pressing it into his… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“She was in the right place at the right time last night, safe inside when the tree came down. One thing different—an… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“The end is what people talk about. How they died. Why does the end always have to be what people talk about?… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“For a moment nothing happens. The figure stands still and I stand cold and alive and- He starts to run. I make… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It's not all gone. She loved someone before and so did I. The Society and the Rising and the world are all… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I open my mouth to say yes. But I only have time to breathe in before he closes the last of the… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Neither of us moves for a moment, locked instead in each other's eyes and in the branches of this Hill we might… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Good-byes are like this. You can’t always mark them well at the moment of separation—no matter how deep they cut. (Ky Markham)” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we’re lucky, we have a… — 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
