Best Ally Condie Quotes
- It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write. Interesting
- We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have. Change
- And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. Absence
- I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes… Break
- I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be. Choose
- There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached. Coming
- I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no… Big
- In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I… Begin
- Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily. Anger
- Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound… All
- There is something extraordinary about the first time falling. Crush
- Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely. Correctly
- So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like… Celebration
- I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content. All
- Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them? Best
- Some things are created to be together. Created
- Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose? Able
- Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable. Anyone
- Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not. Inspirational
- 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… Ache
- And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky. Inspirational
- I was born and raised in southern Utah. Born
- Teens find out a lot from other teens. Find
- When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger… Bigger
- The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own. Beauty