Ally Condie Quotes - Page 2

And 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.

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 pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.

Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt at peace. It was as though I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions.

Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes a part of theirs.

But I didn't see it. I believed him unchanging, a stone in all good senses of the word, solid, dependable, something and someone you could build upon. But he is as we all are: light as air, transient as wisps of cloud before the sun, beautiful and fleeting, and if I ever did truly have hold of him, that has ended now.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

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.

The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.

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.

Reaching and reached. Cassia

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.