Reached Ally Condie Quotes

I weave the papers through the branches, in a long loop. Up and down, my knees bending. My arms above my head, like the girls I saw once in a painting in a cave. There is a rhythm to this, a keeping of time. I wonder if I'm dancing. ~ Ally Condie

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

I wouldn't care how small the world became as long as i had Cassia at the center of mine ~ Ally Condie

Why are some things easier to write than say? ~ Ally Condie

I don't cut deep-I don't want to kill the tree. I carve her name carefully on the trunk, thinking, as I always do, of when I held her hand in mine to teach her to write. ~ Ally Condie

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

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

Neither of us moves for a moment, locked instead in each other's eyes and in the branches of this Hill we might never finish climbing. ~ Ally Condie

I nod, trying not to look too hard at the food on his dish. The flakiness of the sugared crust, which reminds me of crystals on an edge of snow. The red-stained berries smeared across the plate, ripe and surely ful of taste. The words I've said cling to my mind like the pastry does to the heavy silver fork. ~ Ally Condie

Back in Borough I ran barefoot on the grass to try to help Ky. Out here I wear heavy boots and have to run around rocks that threaten my ankle and yet I feel lighter than I did back then, and lighter by far than I ever felt running on the smooth belt of the tracker. I'm filled with adrenaline and hope; I could run forever this way, running to Ky. ~ Ally Condie

And then he says it, right there on the Hill, and of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all. 'I love you. ~ Ally Condie

It might be hard to be new when everyone else belongs. ~ Ally Condie

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

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

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

And I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live. ~ Ally Condie

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

Then Xander whispers, Cassia ... if we could choose, would you ever have chosen me? ~ Ally Condie

The only chance of success is to trust in your own power. ~ Ally Condie

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not. ~ Ally Condie

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

But the part I remember most was when a man stepped out onto the high wire, fifty feet about the ground. By the time he reached the other side, five other people had climbed onto his shoulders, but I wasn't watching him - I was too busy starting at my father, who looked on as if he knew what it felt like, up there without a net. ~ Ally Carter

I looked at the things again. Screwdriver, purple toothbrush, map. I thought about how Leo had helped me get a job and how he let us watch Times of Our Seasons at his house every day and how he listened whenever I talked about Ben and my dad but also didn't expect me to talk about Ben or my dad and how Leo always shared the lollipops from the bank with me. (And now I'd given him one back.) How he'd shown me The Tempest with Lisette Chamberlain as Miranda. How he'd completely understood when I'd cried after I'd seen it.
And a thought came to my mind. Even though I'd only known him for part of a summer.
Leo Bishop might be the best friend I'd ever had. ~ 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

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 did not reach Thee But my feet slip nearer every day Three Rivers and a Hill to cross One Desert and a Sea I shall not count the journey one When I am telling thee. ~ Ally Condie

You're not coming with us," I say, realizing.
"If things were different, I would," Indie says, and when she looks at me, it's hard to hold her honest, longing gaze. "But they aren't. And I still have flying to do." And then, fast, like a fish or a bird, she disappears from the entrance to the hold. No one can catch Indie when it's time for her to move. ~ Ally Condie

I don't worry about things I can't change. ~ Ally Condie

I wish that I did not have to tell him this lie, when he knows more of my truth than anyone else in the world. ~ Ally Condie

How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much? ~ Ally Condie

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

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

I feel disgust when I think of how we climb our little hills when the Officials say the word. How we hand over our most precious items at their bidding. How we never, ever fight. ~ Ally Condie

We all want control of our own. You knew this. ~ Ally Condie

Climbing into dark for you
Will you wait in stars for me? ~ Ally Condie

Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it. ~ Ally Condie

This how it always feels to be with her - a mixture of amusement and admiration and exasperation. ~ Ally Condie

Teens find out a lot from other teens. ~ Ally Condie

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

Thank you, he answers. There is a light in his eyes and I am the one who put it there. ~ Ally Condie

We have things of value, but you could never find them because you don't even know how to look. ~ Ally Condie

For a moment, I'm a part of it all. Then I'm just apart. ~ Ally Condie

Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them? ~ Ally Condie

Things aren't fair. It's our job to do what we can to change that. ~ Ally Condie

No one knows I can do this," Ky says. "Now i have a secret of yours and you have one of mine. ~ Ally Condie

Inside me are the real things that give me strength - my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut. ~ Ally Condie

Because if she isn't angry with him, how can I be? ~ Ally Condie

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