“ So 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 Ally Condie
“ Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True. Ally Condie
“ I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different. Ally Condie
“ Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions... He learns by watching. Ally Condie
“ I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are. Ally Condie
“ 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. Ally Condie
“ There is so much want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia. Ally Condie
“ Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want,pooled in the shape of a girl. Ally Condie
“ It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words fro… Ally Condie
“ The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong. Ally Condie
“ Any other questions?""Just one," I say. "What color are your eyes?" I want to know what he thinks, how he sees himself - the real Ky - when he dares to look."Blue," he says sounding surprised, "they'v… Ally Condie
“ So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him is so strong I can hardly stand it... I think of him, I think of him, I think of him. Ally Condie
“ I don't know what happens after we die. It doesn't seem to me like there can be much past this. But I suppose I can conceive that what we make and do can last beyond us. Maybe in a different place, on… Ally Condie
“ They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place. Ally Condie
“ Thank you," I tell Xander. "I didn't get anything for you -""It's all right," he says, "but maybe - you could -"He looks into my eyes and I know what he wants. A kiss. Even thought he knows about Ky.… Ally Condie
