Ally Condie Quotes

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

If 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 together. Holds you up until you don’t know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

Once you want something, everything changes.

In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn’t work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

This 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.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.

There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.