“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, quote from Matched
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“Once you want something, everything changes.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“Why are some things easier to write than say?”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“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, quote from Matched
“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
"You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I mean so many things: My heart will always fly his name. I won't go gentle. I'll find a way to soar like the angels in the stories and I will find him. And I know he understands as he looks straight at me, deep into my eyes. His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know. Tears well up but I blink them away. Because if there is one moment in my life that I want to see clearly, this is it.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he just lost. He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“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, quote from Matched
“I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“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, quote from Matched
“I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“What is it about your voice that
makes me want to hear you speak?”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“I love you."
lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back.
It's time. I feel it, I know it. My eyes on him, his on me, and both of us breathing, watching, tired of of waiting. Ky close his eyes, but mine are still open. what will it feel like, his lips on mine? Like a secret told, a promise kept? Like that line in the poem-a shower of all my days- silvery rain falling all around me, where the lighting meets the earth?
The whistle blows below us and the moment breaks. We are safe.
For now.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
“Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.”
― Ally Condie, quote from Matched
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“Freedom isn't an illusion; it's perfectly real in the context of sequential consciousness. Within the context of simultaneous consciousness, freedom is not meaningful, but neither is coercion; it's simply a different context, no more or less valid than the other. It's like that famous optical illusion, the drawing of either an elegant young woman, face turned away from the viewer, or a wart-nosed crone, chin tucked down on her chest. There's no “correct” interpretation; both are equally valid. But you can't see both at the same time.
“Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.”
― Ted Chiang, quote from Stories of Your Life and Others
“That one doesn’t count. The poor scoundrel is deaf, but he makes a fine sniffer. How do you think we found you?”
― H.S. Crow, quote from Lunora and the Monster King
“Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold
that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give
up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will
never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de-
struction.”
― Rebecca Solnit, quote from Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“In other words, the default state is to trust, and what the amygdala does is learn vigilance and distrust.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, quote from Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“How can I make you the vessel of the Void? What kind of love would that be?"
"The greatest kind of all.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unblemished
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