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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 the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.
Ally Condie Quotes: I'm just a butterfly, a
Being with Ky, being with Xander -both things feel like standing in the light. Different types of light, but neither feels dark.
Ally Condie Quotes: Being with Ky, being with
Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
Ally Condie Quotes: Red is the first color
Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?" I ask.
"We thought he might," my mother says.
"Why didn't you stop him?"
"We didn't want to take away your choices," my mother says.
"But Grandfather never did tell me about the Rising," I say.
"I think he wanted you to find your own way," my mother says. She smiles. "In that way, he was a true rebel. I think that's why he chose that argument with your father as his favorite memory. Though he was upset when the fight happened, later he came to see that your father was strong in choosing his own path, and he admired him for it.
Ally Condie Quotes: Did you know Grandfather would
For a moment, I'm a part of it all. Then I'm just apart.
Ally Condie Quotes: For a moment, I'm a
I watched Leo and I realized that he also knew how it felt to be different. To want big things in a very small town. To get made fun of. He wasn't as different as I was. But he also wasn't one of those lucky people who fit in all the time. And I thought of the first time I worked with him, what I'd seen. He did like the world - that was the thing about him that I liked the best - but the world didn't always like him back.
Ally Condie Quotes: I watched Leo and I
I run for her.
I run for them.
For me.
Ally Condie Quotes: I run for her.<br />I
But if you were Matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
"You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You.
Ally Condie Quotes: But if you were Matched,
Perhaps this is what I learned in the canyons: What I am, what I'm not, what I'll give, and what I won't.
Ally Condie Quotes: Perhaps this is what I
You can't kill anything that's always moving and changing
Ally Condie Quotes: You can't kill anything that's
I thought you had some kind of greater purpose," Vick says thoughtfully. "Gathering people to bring to the Rising. but you came into the Carving to save yourself and get back to the girl you're in love with. That's all."
"That's all." I agree. He can think less of me if he wants.
"Good enough," Vick says. "Good night.
Ally Condie Quotes: I thought you had some
I don't know what happens after we die. It doesn't seem to me like there can be much past this. But I suppose I can conceive that what we make and do can last beyond us. Maybe in a different place, on another plane.
Ally Condie Quotes: I don't know what happens
Maybe I'm making this up, but my portions seem to be smaller lately. I'm not sure why. The hiking and running on the tracker keep me fit. If anything, I should be getting more food, not less. It must be my imagination.
Ally Condie Quotes: Maybe I'm making this up,
Its okay to wonder.
Ally Condie Quotes: Its okay to wonder.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you.
Ally Condie Quotes: I know which life is
Lying in bed, my body and soul bruised and tired, I realize that the Officials are right. Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more. I want to pick my work position. Marry who I choose. Eat pie for breakfast and run down a real street instead of on a tracker. Go fast when I want and slow when I want. Decide which poems I want to read and what words I want to write. There is so much that I want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia.
Ally Condie Quotes: Lying in bed, my body
No one can break as many rules as I have and not get caught somehow, sometime.
Ally Condie Quotes: No one can break as
This is a cruel thing to do because when someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt you. It's why I give mine away in pieces, even to Cassia.
Ally Condie Quotes: This is a cruel thing
This is the difference between us. I live to sort, he knows how to create.
Ally Condie Quotes: This is the difference between
I wouldn't have seen the light if she hadn't pointed out, but once sje did, it became impossible to ignore.
Ally Condie Quotes: I wouldn't have seen the
I see his eyes, bright with life adnfire, and I know he won't stop fighting. Even if it's the kind of quiet fight on the inside that you can't always see. And I won't stop fighting either.
Ally Condie Quotes: I see his eyes, bright
She knew too much and she admitted it in that report.
Ally Condie Quotes: She knew too much and
He stops just close enough for me to see the blue of his eyes and forget the red on my hands and the green I wish I wore.
Ally Condie Quotes: He stops just close enough
When I came up choking I could tell that she saw the differences in me. Her eyes rested on the scrape on my face from the Outer Provinces. But it was as though she was a little like me. She noticed the differences and then she decided what mattered and what didn't. She laughed with me then, and I loved the way the laugh reached her green eyes and crinkled the skin around them.
Ally Condie Quotes: When I came up choking
It's hard to know which ways to be strong.
Ally Condie Quotes: It's hard to know which
I analyzed the viral genome taken from the patient with the circumferential rash," he says. "It reveals an additional copy of the neural-insertion envelope protein gene. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Ally Condie Quotes: I analyzed the viral genome
of course, your one of my best friends.
Ally Condie Quotes: of course, your one of
You don't have to try to be the hero." His voice is rough and low.
"I'm not trying," I say. "I am.
Ally Condie Quotes: You don't have to try
Because in the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how to let it go.
Ally Condie Quotes: Because in the end you
Close your eyes," I say to Ky, and I bend down, his breathing above me while he waits. "There," I say, and he looks at what I've written. I love you.
Ally Condie Quotes: Close your eyes,
There's got to be some light in a corner somewhere.
Ally Condie Quotes: There's got to be some
Because I can see in his eyes that he wants that kiss as much as I do.
Ally Condie Quotes: Because I can see in
[..] I know he won't stop fighting. Even if it's the kind of quiet fight on the inside that you can't always see.
Ally Condie Quotes: [..] I know he won't
I'm going to do. I want to look at the microcard without my parents or Bram glancing
Ally Condie Quotes: I'm going to do. I
I'm standing in a river. It's blue. Dark blue. Reflecting the color of the evening sky.
Ally Condie Quotes: I'm standing in a river.
Trust your words
Ally Condie Quotes: Trust your words
The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. I
Ally Condie Quotes: The pain wants to eat
My face is turned to a sky that I cannot see, one blue above the stone.
Ally Condie Quotes: My face is turned to
People can be miracles.
Ally Condie Quotes: People can be miracles.
But then I feel it. Even hidden away in the dark, I can tell that it is there. Some small part of me is always, always free.
Ally Condie Quotes: But then I feel it.
I'm not anyone. I'm just one of the people who happened to fall in the majority. All my life, the odds have been on my side.
Ally Condie Quotes: I'm not anyone. I'm just
It's not their business unless the Society says that it is.
Ally Condie Quotes: It's not their business unless
You left me before you left Oria.
Ally Condie Quotes: You left me before you
Ky is heavy in my mind, deep in my heart, his palms warm on my empty hands. I have to try to find him. Loving him gave me wings and all my work has given me the strength to move them.
Ally Condie Quotes: Ky is heavy in my
That's when I realize that the statistics the Officials give us do not matter to me. I know there are many people who are happy and I am glad for them. But this is Ky. If he is the one person who falls by the wayside while the other ninety-nine are happy and fulfilled, that is not right with me anymore. I realize that I don't care about the Officer pacing below or the other hikers among the trees, or really anything else at all, and that is when I realize how dangerous this truly is.
Ally Condie Quotes: That's when I realize that
I think how this is always the way he is, giving me something even when most would think there was nothing left to do but let go
Ally Condie Quotes: I think how this is
If I couldn't name it, would I even know what it is? Would I even feel it at all?
Ally Condie Quotes: If I couldn't name it,
If only we still knew how to write instead of just type things into our scribes. Then I could write them down again someday. Then I might be able to have them when I am old.
Ally Condie Quotes: If only we still knew
In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.
Ally Condie Quotes: In a story, you can
It might be hard to be new when everyone else belongs.
Ally Condie Quotes: It might be hard to
I want so much: happiness, freedom, love.
Ally Condie Quotes: I want so much: happiness,
The way the two of them look at each other is like touching.
Ally Condie Quotes: The way the two of
Of course, one person can be the world.
Ally Condie Quotes: Of course, one person can
There is satisfaction in knowing that something good and right and true was part of you. That you had the blessing, gift, good fortune, perfect luck, to know someone like this, to pass through fire and water and stone and sky together and emerge, all of you, strong enough to hold on, strong enough to let go. (Cassia)
Ally Condie Quotes: There is satisfaction in knowing
Don't wait for me anymore.
I hope for love for you.
I hope for this more than anything else, maybe even more than my own happiness.
And in a way, perhaps that means I love Xander best of all.
Ally Condie Quotes: Don't wait for me anymore.<br>I
It gets harder and steeper, but not impossible.
Ally Condie Quotes: It gets harder and steeper,
The darkness behind doesn't worry me; neither do the stars ahead. I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth so you always remember where you came from, how hard walking could be.
Ally Condie Quotes: The darkness behind doesn't worry
For some reason the neatly ordered and abandoned books make me feel sad. Tired. I wish Cassia were with me. She'd turn each page and read every word. I can picture her in the dim light of the cave with her bright eyes and her smile and I close my eyes. That shadowy memory might be as close as I come to seeing her again. We have the map, but the distance we still have to cross looks almost insurmountable.
Ally Condie Quotes: For some reason the neatly
For a moment on the top of that bare pain of rock I wonder if I should run behind or ahead-which is the best way to protect her-and then I find us just running side by side.
Ally Condie Quotes: For a moment on the
Thoughts from the boy who is an Aberration.
Ally Condie Quotes: Thoughts from the boy who
It could," Ky agrees. He's no longer smiling but his eyes are mischievous.
Ally Condie Quotes: It could,
Then, quick, he flips the fish out onto the bank. It flops and gasps for air, its body slick.
We all watch the fish die.
Ally Condie Quotes: Then, quick, he flips the
We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
Ally Condie Quotes: We can either try to
Rain falls in both pictures, but in the first one his mouth is open, his head tipped back, he drinks from the sky. In the second one his head is down, his eyes panicked, the rain thick around him, streaming off him like a waterfall. There is too much rain here. He could drown.
Ally Condie Quotes: Rain falls in both pictures,
Death will not take the people I love. Our journey will end differently.
Ally Condie Quotes: Death will not take the
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle
it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?
Ally Condie Quotes: Isn't it funny how the
Even far away, I know it's her by the way her dark hair tangles with the wind and how she stands on the red rocks of the Carving. She's more beautiful than snow.
Ally Condie Quotes: Even far away, I know
In the absence of real thunder, he's making his own.
Ally Condie Quotes: In the absence of real
Knowledge doesn't fail us.
Ally Condie Quotes: Knowledge doesn't fail us.
I didn't point out that I'm part Chinese-American and so the odds that I would have been in England back in Shakespeare's time were highly unlikely. "And,
Ally Condie Quotes: I didn't point out that
The four of us sit together in the sea of blue, the train twisting and turning like a river running, and I know it's hard to fight against a current as strong as the Society.
Ally Condie Quotes: The four of us sit
To see how Grandfather handles leaving, and to
see how we manage being left.
Ally Condie Quotes: To see how Grandfather handles
Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?
Ally Condie Quotes: Did the poet know how
I understood why Leo called the fountain Baby Niagara. Because once you see something big, you can't help seeing it in everything small.
Ally Condie Quotes: I understood why Leo called
Life, Death, and Oblivion always at my fingertips
Ally Condie Quotes: Life, Death, and Oblivion always
Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
Ally Condie Quotes: Remembering is part of thinking,
If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you.
I like lost.
Ally Condie Quotes: If you stay here, you
So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I mean so many things: My heart will always fly his name. I won't go gentle. I'll find a way to soar like the angels in the stories and I will find him. And I know he understands as he looks straight at me, deep into my eyes. His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know. Tears well up but I blink them away. Because if there is one moment in my life that I want to see clearly, this is it.
Ally Condie Quotes: So in the middle of
If I could find one, I would cover the bark with her name the way I used to cover her hand with mine on the Hill.
Ally Condie Quotes: If I could find one,
Other kids grew up telling stories about the Pilot," Caleb says. "But I grew up watching him fly.
Ally Condie Quotes: Other kids grew up telling
And as the Society reminds us, there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge doesn't fail us.
Ally Condie Quotes: And as the Society reminds
The spring breeze cuts around me, tearing the last of the old leaves from the branches of the bushes. It pulls on my clothes, and I imagine that if it took them from me, the last of my papers would soar out into the world, and I know it is time for me to stop holding certain things so close.
Ally Condie Quotes: The spring breeze cuts around
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 Quotes: I wonder if they'll be
in that report. She
Ally Condie Quotes: in that report. She
I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.
Ally Condie Quotes: I know how it feels
Long ago people used to say what they wanted out loud and hope that someone would give it to them. They called it praying.
Ally Condie Quotes: Long ago people used to
Once you want something, everything changes.
Ally Condie Quotes: Once you want something, everything
Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he just lost. He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time.
Ally Condie Quotes: Ky can play this game.
I know you meant that you would always remember me, Cassia, but I'm afraid you might forget.
Ally Condie Quotes: I know you meant that
What would Grandfather think of this jump I'm taking? Would this be one time he would tell me to hang on to the edge with all my might? Would he say to cling to the side of the board until my fingers became bloody and scraped? Or would he say that it was all right to let go?
Ally Condie Quotes: What would Grandfather think of
I know the Otherlands are to her what Ky is to me, the best, most beautiful place, not fully realized, but full of promise.
Ally Condie Quotes: I know the Otherlands are
It doesn't have many roots,' I say. 'Not yet,' she says. 'That will come.
Ally Condie Quotes: It doesn't have many roots,'
And I guess that was right, but it also seemed to me like people who said Ben was special and had no worries were as wrong as the people long ago, but in a different way.
Because that's crappy. What if this life was all Ben got? People said he was sweet and special - and he was - but he was also sad and angry. More than most people. He cried. His own body seemed to feel weird to him sometimes - he would jump and move like he wanted to be free of his skin. I could see him looking at us like Get me out of here and we were never sure where to take him. You can't take someone away from their own body. And that seemed unfair. Would God really do that to someone so other people could feel like they were learning important lessons in the few minutes they spent with him?
Ally Condie Quotes: And I guess that was
I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
Ally Condie Quotes: I am trapped in glass
And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed.
Ally Condie Quotes: And it strikes me that
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 him gone."
I understand. "Because if you can't dream you can't pretend that he's still here.
Ally Condie Quotes: It doesn't matter much anyway.
Holding my hands out open wide. Not catching the drops or trying to hold them. I'm letting them leave their mark and then letting them go.
Ally Condie Quotes: Holding my hands out open
There's a reason they didn't keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight.
Ally Condie Quotes: There's a reason they didn't
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
Ally Condie Quotes: Being a teen is past
You told me once," I say to Ky, holding up the bud for him to see and then pressing it into his hand, "that red was the color of beginning."
He smiles.
The color of beginning. For a moment, a memory flickers in and out. It is a rare moment in spring when both buds on the trees and flowers on the ground are red. The air is cool and at the same time warm. Grandfather watches me, his eyes bright and determined.
Ally Condie Quotes: You told me once,
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