“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
“I wonder if they'll be able to resist. It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is… — 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I love you," she whispers. "I love you," I say back. I choose her again and again and again until the pilot… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I help him to reach her. For a moment, I am a part of it all. Then I'm just apart.” — 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
“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
“I am different and that has nothing to do with you, I wanted to tell him. Leo is different and that has… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“For a moment on the top of that bare pain of rock I wonder if I should run behind or ahead-which is… — 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
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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 think that’s… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
