Top 200 Ally Condie Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.”

— Ally Condie

152. “The way the two of them look at each other is like touching.”

— Ally Condie

153. “If I can’t pull myself together soon he’ll know somethings wrong. We know each other too well.”

— Ally Condie

154. “Time, Vick said, “is what we don’t have.”

— Ally Condie

155. “Parents are always giving things that are not taken.”

— Ally Condie

156. “People can be miracles.”

— Ally Condie

157. “Tell me a little every day and I’ll remember it for you. Then there will be two of us who know.”

— Ally Condie

158. “Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.”

— Ally Condie

159. “I was trying to find a way to you,” Ky says. “I wanted to cross the plain and get back to the Society somehow. We took some things from the farmers’ township for trade.”

— Ally Condie

160. “I am protected, shaped and built by what is outside, what they made of me, but also by what is inside, what I made of myself.”

— Ally Condie

161. “Then she asked me the color of my eyes. In that moment I realized that loving each other felt more dangerous-more like a rebellion-than anything else ever could.”

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162. “I am different and that has nothing to do with you, I wanted to tell him. Leo is different and that has nothing to do with you. You look at us and you don’t like us and you don’t even know why. I’ve seen it before a million times with Ben.”

— Ally Condie

163. “This summer I’d been spending a lot of time on other people’s deaths. Harley’s. Lisette’s. But somehow it had helped me feel alive. Because they weren’t my deaths. The ones that were my own were too hard to face.”

— Ally Condie

164. “For a moment on the top of that bare pain of rock I wonder if I should run behind or ahead-which is the best way to protect her-and then I find us just running side by side.”

— Ally Condie

165. “Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and the part we write sometimes feels like the only part that matters.”

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166. “You always have more to lose, until you die.”

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167. “So many beginnings. I tell myself that in a way it’s good that I haven’t Ky yet, because I still don’t know what to whisper to him when I see him, which words would be the very best ones to give.”

— Ally Condie

168. “I can’t help being happy. I’m alive.”

— Ally Condie

169. “No one can break as many rules as I have and not get caught somehow, sometime.”

— Ally Condie

170. “Watching Ky wake is better than a sunrise.”

— Ally Condie

171. “You can’t let love make you afraid.”

— Ally Condie

172. “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

173. “Go fast when I want and slow when I want.”

— Ally Condie

174. “Somewhere above us the sky seeps rain and I think of snow falling. Pictures painted with water. Poetry breathed between kisses. Too beautiful to last.”

— Ally Condie

175. “I have been in the presence of a lot of greatness. And people I love who loved me back. It might be the same thing.”

— Ally Condie

176. “Some people always burn.”

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177. “I love you,” she whispers. “I love you,” I say back. I choose her again, and again, and again.”

— Ally Condie

178. “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.”

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179. “I close my eyes. I love KY. But I don’t understand him. He won’t let me reach him. I have made mistakes, too, I know it, but I am tired of chasing him through canyons and out onto plains and stretching out my hand only to have him take it some times and not others.”

— Ally Condie

180. “I think he might have meant to say something more, but when our lips touch, there is no need, for once, for any words at all.”

— Ally Condie

181. “I want a good way to remember, I wanted to say to Meg. I want to stop crying. I want everything in the world to stop breaking my heart.”

— Ally Condie

182. “Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, his eyes wide and deep like the oceans in other tales or like the sky in his own.”

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183. “If you could fly anywhere, where would you go?” Indie asks. “I think you know the answer to that,” I tell her. I slip the paper into my pocket. “Central, then,” Indie says. “You’d fly to Central.” “Wherever Cassia is.”

— Ally Condie

184. “When I came up choking I could tell that she saw the differences in me. Her eyes rested on the scrape on my face from the Outer Provinces. But it was as though she was a little like me. She noticed the differences and then she decided what mattered and what didn’t. She laughed with me then, and I loved the way the laugh reached her green eyes and crinkled the skin around them.”

— Ally Condie

185. “The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I’m not. I’m only afraid of dying wrong.”

— Ally Condie

186. “He still thinks that knowing why might help. He doesn’t yet know that the reason will never be good enough.”

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187. “Ky wants someone to see him. He wants me to see him.”

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188. “I wonder if they’ll be able to resist. It’s not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain.”

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189. “But he knew I wouldn’t do that. He knew I wouldn’t ask Mom for anything I didn’t really, really need. We both tried to be good for her and she tried to be patient with us. Sometimes I thought of the three of us as pencils with the erasers scrubbed down to the end, and the next swipe across the paper would tear through the page and make a scree sound across the desk.”

— Ally Condie

190. “For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.”

— Ally Condie

191. “We have things of value, but you could never find them because you don’t even know how to look.”

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192. “The words go together. Some things are created to be together.”

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193. “I don’t know what Miles thought about while we walked home but I thought about Leo. I guess I was wrong about him fitting in with his family. And I should have realized that he would fit in because that’s one thing I do know for sure. That it is possible to be different and still belong to your family. For them to love you like crazy.”

— Ally Condie

194. “They have perfected the art of giving us just enough freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog.”

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195. “Ky and I have been marking, too, with flags on the Hill. With the poetry of others and with words of our own.”

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196. “Perhaps this is what I learned in the canyons: What I am, what I’m not, what I’ll give, and what I won’t.”

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197. “The pictures were beautiful both because of the way they looked while they existed and because they could never last.”

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198. “If you love someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how can you do nothing at all? You might as well take their words out of the dirt and try to snatch them from the wind. Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back.”

— Ally Condie

199. “It was interesting how every single person in the world had some kind of specialized knowledge, whether it was from the work they did or the passions they had or the way their lives had turned out. You came to know certain things specifically and deeply, sometimes by choice and sometimes by circumstance, occasionally by both.”

— Ally Condie

200. “The Society isn’t human, but the people work for it sometimes are.”

— Ally Condie