Ally Condie

“Watching Ky wake is better than a sunrise.”

— Ally Condie

“Parents are always giving things that are not taken”

— Ally Condie

“The dead don't see but I do.”

— Ally Condie

“Something in her is still drowning a little from loss.”

— Ally Condie

“Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I head into the night?”

— Ally Condie

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

— Ally Condie

“It's nice, isn't it... to be part of something greater than yourself.”

— Ally Condie

“Because in the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”

— Ally Condie

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

— Ally Condie

“I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you.”

— Ally Condie

“No me importaría lo pequeño que se volviera el mundo siempre que Cassia continuara siendo el centro del mío.”

— Ally Condie

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

— Ally Condie

“They say you should always teach a person’s name first. That way, even if they never learn to write anything else, they’ll…

— Ally Condie

“Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and…

— Ally Condie

“Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and…

— Ally Condie

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.…

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“And I realize that I can never stay in these hollowed-out places in the earth for long before I have to come…

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“Everyday the sun rolls by Across the sky and through night's door Every night the stars light high Above the Earth and…

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I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if…

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“The four of us sit together in the sea of blue, the train twisting and turning like a river running, and I…

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“Cassia. I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason,…

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“I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm…

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“Come with me outside," he says, and I feel his hand on mine. "We won't go far." I can't see him; but…

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“She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you…

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“The Pilot had teams scouring the fields and meadows near the city of Camas, with instructions not to pull up everything so…

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“Pero también sé que no podemos esperar que otra persona venga a rescatarnos. Tenemos que hacerlo nosotros mismos. No puede haber ningún…

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“Everyone has something of beauty about them. In the beginning for me, it was Ky's eyes I noticed, and I love the,…

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“For one night, can we just think of each other? Not the Society or the Rising or even our families?" "No," I…

— Ally Condie

“For what is the point of having something lovely if you never share it?”

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“Then, the question I asked myself was, do I look pretty? now the question I ask is, do I look strong?”

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“If I could find one, I would cover the bark with her name the way I used to cover her hand with…

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“Last summer we had a dad and a brother and then they were gone. We did not see it coming.”

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

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“Not many people know how to make letters like this," he says. "Do you ever teach anyone?" "Only once," I say.”

— Ally Condie

“I wouldn't have seen the light if she hadn't pointed out, but once sje did, it became impossible to ignore.”

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“I'm standing in a river. It's blue. Dark blue. Reflecting the color of the evening sky.”

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“In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more.”

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“They were too much to carry so I left them behind for a new life, in a new place but no one…

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“If I’m talking to patients who can’t answer, why not talk to the port, too? (Xander Markham)”

— Ally Condie

“We have all been carved out by our sorrow. Cut deep like canyon walls.”

— Ally Condie