“ 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. I want to do som… Ally Condie
“ 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. Ally Condie
“ Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say. Ally Condie
“ I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens. Ally Condie
“ They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability. Ally Condie
“ For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives Ally Condie
“ At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself… Ally Condie
“ 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. Ally Condie
“ Sometimes paper is only paper," my mothers says. "Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to remember that."I know what she means. Writing, painting, singing--it cannot s… Ally Condie
“ I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys. Ally Condie
“ 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. Ally Condie
“ ...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. Ally Condie
“ But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me. Ally Condie
“ He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel. Ally Condie
