Ally Condie, Reached Quotes
Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel
It could have been different, " I say, almost under my breath. If I'd kissed Indie again after she kissed me. If I hadn't known Cassia before I met Indie."But it's not, " Indie says, and she's right.
He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird.
I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.
I draw in a ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry, when you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.
The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.
No, ' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been.
...I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.
Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.
They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.
For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives
She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.
Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't.When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are--how impossible to reach.
Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.