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Ally Condie Quotes

Total quotes: 30
“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
“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
“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Love, Change, possibilities
“One person can be the world.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Love, Everything, Dating, Relationships
“It’s all right to wonder.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Wondering, Questioning, curious
“Once you want something, everything changes.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Wants, Needs, Changes
“If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Hope, Faith, Death
“Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: caring, Love, Friendship, Vulnerable, Weak
“No one should die alone.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Death, Alone, Lonely
“Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Words, Writing, Language
“People can be miracles.”
— Ally Condie, Atlantia
Tagged: People, Miracles, humans
“I can't stress enough how many private emails were sent, by many people, and how much we did NOT want this to go so badly. We're tired. We want to write our books and go to public events and not be touched and harassed. That is all. Please.”
— Ally Condie
Tagged: Authors, Writers, Sexual Harassment, sexual harassment in the workplace, female authors, publishing industry
“Words mean what you want them to mean.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Words, Meaning, definition
“Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Loss, Memories, Remembering
“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 and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Writing, Painting, Singing, Death, Fear
“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.”
— Ally Condie, First Day
Tagged: breakup, Memories, Bitter, self-preservation, Pain
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