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Ally Condie Quotes

Total quotes: 53
“Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving let’s you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why’s, you can love those parts too, and it’s a love at once more complicated and more complete.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed
Tagged: Love, Seeing beauty, Appreciation
“I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blind eyes and sticky 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, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Butterflies, cocoon, trapped, Weak
“We can’t plan on anyone else rescuing us. We have to do it ourselves.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Rescue, saving, Independent
“We have all been carved out by our sorrow. Cut deep like canyon walls.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Sorrow, Pain, Suffering
“Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Understanding, Analyzing, Safe
“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Love, Fall in love, Falling In Love, Stories of Love, Reading
“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Decisions, Choices, Letting Go, Loss
“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, Reached
Tagged: Death, Rebirth, Stories, Books
“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, Reached
Tagged: Misunderstanding, People, Confusion
“It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Choices, Decisions, chances, opportunities
“I believe, sometimes in spite of myself, in grace and better things to come and a time when we will all be whole.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Belief, Grace, Positivity, Optimism
“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Growing Apart, Distance, Loss
“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Happiness, Dating, Love, what ifs
“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Courage, Brave, Life, Decisions, Choices
“This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Truth, Lies, Balance
“When we fall in love the first time, we don’t know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we choose to love again.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Love, First Love, risks
“You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Suffering, Joy, Choices
“The best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Flying, Home, Memories
“I imagine giving someone such a gift and then having it returned. Parents are always giving things that are not taken.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Parenting, gifts, Children
“Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most.”
— Ally Condie, Atlantia
Tagged: Death, Dying, Disappointment
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Love, Time, Loss
“Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: forget, Memories, Pain
“When someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt you. It's why I give mine away in pieces.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed
Tagged: Stories, Knowledge, Friendship, hurt
“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Destruction, strength, Holding On
“Sometimes it seems like everything I’ve done has been to help you be ready for someone else.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Love, Dating, preparation
“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, Matched
Tagged: Powerful, Dating, Love, Relationship
“It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Writing, Words, Books
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Future, Past, Memories
“What is the point of having something lovely if you never share it? It would be like having a poem, a beautiful wild poem that no one else has, and burning it.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: poem, Poetry, sharing
“A little surge of bitterness goes through me like someone's shot it right into my veins with a syringe. But I know how to get over the feeling: remember that it doesn't do any good.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Bitter, Feelings, useless
“Earth is a giant stone, rolling and turning through the sky. And we’re all on it together.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Earth, Together, humanity
“Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.”
— Ally Condie, Atlantia
Tagged: Afraid, Fear, Quiet, Silence
“Love. The most reckless thing of all.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed
Tagged: Love, Reckless, dangerous
“You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Change, Life, Journey, Moving Forward
“It is strange that absence can feel like presence.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Absence, Alone, Presence
“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed
Tagged: Second Chances, Love, Relationships, Possible, possibilities, Probable, Unlikely Things, Change
“Why are some things easier to write than say?”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Writing, expression, Words, Feelings
“Things happen whether you deserve them or not.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, deserving
“I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Dreams, hopes, skeptical
“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Love, Change, possibilities
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