Ally Condie, Crossed Quotes

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is

The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.

The rain turns lighter, turns to snow. And I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be.