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50 Ally Condie Quotes To Help You Deal With Your Lingering Heartache

Things happen whether you deserve them or not. 
Holly Riordan
October 5, 2016
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Why are some things easier to write than say?”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Writing, expression, Words, Feelings
“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Love, Change, possibilities
“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
“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
“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
“Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: forget, Memories, Pain
“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
“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
“Words mean what you want them to mean.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Words, Meaning, definition
“It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Writing, Words, Books
“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
“We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.”
— Ally Carter, Crossed
Tagged: Change, enjoy life, Time, live in the moment
“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
“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
“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
“We have all been carved out by our sorrow. Cut deep like canyon walls.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Sorrow, Pain, Suffering
“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
“Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: caring, Love, Friendship, Vulnerable, Weak
“One person can be the world.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Love, Everything, Dating, Relationships
“Things happen whether you deserve them or not.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, deserving
“It is strange that absence can feel like presence.”
— Ally Condie, Crossed (Matched)
Tagged: Absence, Alone, Presence
“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
“It’s all right to wonder.”
— Ally Condie, Reached
Tagged: Wondering, Questioning, curious
“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