Ally Condie Crossed Quotes

I see a glint in her eye as she looks at me and it makes me smile. Hold our breath? she seems to say. Move the earth? We've been doing that all along. ~ Ally Condie

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. ~ Ally Condie

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

She cried before she slept. I reached out to touch the ends of her hair. She didn't notice. I didn't know what to do. Listening to her made me ache. I felt tears stream down my face too. And when I accidentally brushed Eli with my arm his face was wet where his tears ran down. We have all been carved out by our sorrow. Cut deep like canyon walls. ~ Ally Condie

Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape. ~ Ally Condie

My words never last long. I have to destroy them before anyone sees them. But. I remember them all. For some reason, the act of writing them down makes me remember. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones. And when I see Ky again, which I know will happen, I will whisper the words I have written in his ear, against his lips. and they will change from ash and nothing into flesh and blood. ~ Ally Condie

We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have. ~ Ally Condie

That part was easy. Tearing up the roots will be the hard part. ~ Ally Condie

The two of us hold each other's gazes for a long, unembarrassed moment and I feel that Ky knows. I'm not sure what he knows - whether he knows me, or just something about me. ~ Ally Condie

He said he thought it happened fast, both for my dad and Ben and for the drunk driver who hit them, but for the rest of the questions he said, We just don't know.
We just don't know.
Some things are gone for good. You can't get them back. You can't know what happened. Ever. ~ Ally Condie

Was there a stolen touch before he found himself again at the bottom of the hill with the stone to push? Did he smile to himself as he set, again, to rolling it? ~ Ally Condie

Cassia doesn't like to sort people. I'm all too good at it and I worry I'll grow to like it too much.It's a talent.[...]And all it takes is a misstep or two for that talent to become a liability instead of an asset. ~ Ally Condie

I never needed the Society to Match me. ~ Ally Condie

A minute ago you told me that you thought I was cute."
"Yeah," Leo said. "I mean, I do think that. But you're not my girlfriend. You're my person."
I knew right away what he meant.
I thought he was cute and he thought I was cute but it was different than it was when people have crushes.
With Leo I'd fallen into another kind of like. I couldn't wait to tell him stuff and I loved hearing him laugh at my jokes and I loved laughing at his jokes. He made me feel like I had a spot in the world.
It felt as if Leo and I could like each other all our lives.
So I hugged him.
He was my person too. ~ Ally Condie

Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it's like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham) ~ Ally Condie

I know you meant that you would always remember me, Cassia, but I'm afraid you might forget. ~ Ally Condie

Away from the Society, from Xander, from my family, from the life I knew. Away from the boy who led us here, from the light that creeps across this land, turning the sky blue and the stone red, the light that could get us killed. ~ Ally Condie

I can't help being happy. I'm alive. ~ Ally Condie

We liked our grandparents. We liked our uncle and our aunt. They had known our dad and our brother Ben. They had some of the same memories we did. Sometimes they even brought things up, like, "Remember when your dad went out in the kayak at Aspen Lake and he flipped over and we had to save him in our paddleboat?" and we would all start laughing because we had the same picture in our minds, my dad with his sunglasses dangling from one ear and his hair all wet. And they knew that Ben's favorite kind of ice cream wasn't ice cream at all, it was rainbow sherbet, and he always ate green first, and so when I saw it in my grandma's freezer once and I started crying they didn't even ask why and I think I saw my uncle Nick, my mom's brother, crying too. ~ Ally Condie

You can't let love make you afraid. ~ Ally Condie

His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know. ~ Ally Condie

No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been. ~ Ally Condie

I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it. ~ Ally Condie

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

I am protected, shaped and built by what is outside, what they made of me, but also by what is inside, what I made of myself. ~ Ally Condie

For a minute I thought he was going to turn around and leave. Not even watch Times of Our Seasons. Then I saw him take a deep breath and do that thing. You see grown-ups do it all the time. They're about to lose their patience or get mad and then instead they take a deep breath and do not lose their patience and do not scream.
It's a weird thing to see a little kid do. I used to see Ben do it and it tore me up. ~ Ally Condie

With Cassia on the Hill - only then was I truly myself. ~ Ally Condie

Death will not take the people I love. Our journey will end differently. ~ Ally Condie

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night? ~ Ally Condie

Apparently I was predicted to finish second. My stop must not have been as long as I thought. ~ 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 always have something. ~ Ally Condie

Earth is a giant stone, rolling and turning through the sky. And we're all on it together. I do believe that. ~ Ally Condie

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys. ~ Ally Condie

It doesn't have many roots,' I say. 'Not yet,' she says. 'That will come. ~ Ally Condie

But suddenly I hope Xander's right. I hope part of me fell in love with Ky before anyone else told me to. ~ Ally Condie