Top 180 Ally Condie Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Ally Condie

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2. “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.”

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

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4. “We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”

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5. “When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.”

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

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7. “We don’t need to understand everything.”

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8. “For what is the point of having something lovely if you never share it? It would be like having a poem, a beautiful wild poem that no one else has, and burning it.”

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

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10. “Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.”

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11. “Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.”

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12. “There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.”

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13. “Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.”

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14. “Now that I’ve found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”

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15. “And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.”

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16. “Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?”

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17. “It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”

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18. “Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape.”

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19. “So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I mean so many things: My heart will always fly his name. I won’t go gentle. I’ll find a way to soar life the angels in the stories and I will find him.”

— Ally Condie

20. “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.”

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21. “How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?”

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22. “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.”

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

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24. “I’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 is ever simply not strong enough to break through.”

— Ally Condie

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25. “Sometimes paper is just paper, words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don’t be afraid to remember that.”

— Ally Condie

26. “There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.”

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27. “And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.”

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28. “You wouldn’t believe how fast people can forget about someone.”

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29. “Red is the first color of spring. It’s the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.”

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30. “I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.”

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31. “When you can’t cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.”

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32. “I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.”

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35. “Is falling in love with someone’s story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”

— Ally Condie

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36. “It’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 foilware.”

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37. “In the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”

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38. “Being with Ky, being with Xander -both things feel like standing in the light. Different types of light, but neither feels dark.”

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39. “There’s a reason they didn’t keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight.”

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40. “And as the Society reminds us, there’s a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge doesn’t fail us.”

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41. “I see his eyes, bright with life adnfire, and I know he won’t stop fighting. Even if it’s the kind of quiet fight on the inside that you can’t always see. And I won’t stop fighting either.”

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42. “I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don’t know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.”

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43. “No one should die alone.”

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44. “Two little dark figures, looking up. Are they looking at me? Is is him? This far away there’s only one way to know. I point to the sky.”

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45. “It’s not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it’s what you write.”

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46. “This is a cruel thing to do because when someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt you. It’s why I give mine away in pieces, even to Cassia.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?”

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50. “And I’ll tell her that I don’t want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.”

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