Ally CondieThis 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 (20… ▶371DeathTruth
Ally CondieI wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.113, Penguin321Death
Ally CondieAnd it is strange that absence can feel like presence. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.224, Penguin344Death
Ally CondieIt'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 foi… ▶311Death
Ally CondieWe can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.301Time
Ally CondieWriting, 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 beaut… ▶323DeathSadness
Ally CondieThere is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.291Reflection
Ally CondieIt is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.147, Penguin368Death
Ally CondieEveryone has something of beauty about them. But loving let's you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you fi… ▶291Love
Ally CondieIt is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. ✨ Ally Condie (2014). Atlantia, p.189, Penguin346DeathHopeTime
Ally CondieI think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.281Thought
Ally CondieOnce you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more. ✨ Ally Condie (2010). Matched, p.202, Penguin UK348Death
Ally CondieRed is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.176, Penguin293Death
Ally CondieI realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be. ✨ Ally Condie (2012). Reached, p.254, Penguin3510DeathLife
Ally CondieHow can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much? ✨ Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). Breathless Reads Sampler, … ▶283DeathReading
Ally CondieSo much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.328HumanityLifeTime
Ally CondieWhy are some things easier to write than say?3210Reading
Ally CondieWe could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.217, Penguin232Death
Ally CondieRemembering is part of thinking, but not all of it. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.48, Penguin223DeathThought
Ally CondieEverything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never h… ▶257Death
Ally CondieOnce you want something, everything changes. ✨ Matched. Book by Ally Condie, November 30, 2010.213DeathReading
Ally CondieI'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside … ▶181Time
Ally CondieIt's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.269Thought
Ally CondieI am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.179, Penguin203Death
Ally CondieReading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.71, Penguin203DeathReading
Ally CondieNow that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night? ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.12, Penguin183Death
Ally CondieIn the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go. ✨ Ally Condie (2012). Reached, p.282, Penguin172Death
Ally CondieIs falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.122, Penguin216DeathLove
Ally CondieI have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content. ✨ Ally Condie (2014). Atlantia, p.31, Penguin228DeathLife
Ally CondieIf 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 toget… ▶184DeathHope
