“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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“I thought that I needed a church and hundreds of guests and music that
actually sounded like music, but I was wrong.
What I needed was a drunken priest, irreverent guests, and a companion
who learned to play piano from a goat."
"Then you got exactly what you needed."
"I suppose so. But then again, all I really needed was you.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from Dancing at Midnight
“«Ho udito bene?» chiese il professor Obnubile. «Un popolo industrioso come il vostro è impegnato in così tante guerre?» «Certo», rispose l’interprete. «Sono guerre industriali. I popoli che non hanno né commercio né industrie non sono costretti a fare la guerra, mentre per un popolo industrioso una politica di conquiste è indispensabile. Il numero delle nostre guerre aumenta necessariamente con l’attività produttiva. Quando una delle industrie non trova da smerciare i suoi prodotti, deve iniziare una guerra per aprirsi nuovi sbocchi. Quest’anno abbiamo avuto una guerra per il carbone, una per il rame, una per il cotone. Nella Terza Zelanda abbiamo ucciso i due terzi degli abitanti allo scopo di costringere gli altri ad acquistare i nostri ombrelli e le nostre bretelle.»”
― Anatole France, quote from Penguin Island
“Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Dead to You
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, quote from The Wisdom of Life
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