Top 180 Ally Condie Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Are you congratulating me on my life, or on my death?”

— Ally Condie

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

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153. “People can be miracles.”

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

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155. “I watched Leo and I realized that he also knew how it felt to be different. To want big things in a very small town. To get made fun of. He wasn’t as different as I was. But he also wasn’t one of those lucky people who fit in all the time. And I thought of the first time I worked with him, what I’d seen. He did like the world – that was the thing about him that I liked the best – but the world didn’t always like him back.”

— Ally Condie

156. “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.”

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

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158. “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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159. “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

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

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162. “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.”

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163. “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.”

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

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

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166. “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.”

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167. “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.”

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

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169. “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.”

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

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

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

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173. “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.”

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174. “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.”

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175. “Some people always burn.”

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

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

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179. “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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180. “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

181. “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.”

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182. “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.”

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183. “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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184. “Ky wants someone to see him. He wants me to see him.”

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185. “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

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

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187. “You think there’s nothing here because we’re not putting up a fight. But there are words in our heads that no one else knows.”

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188. “Back then, I was home in Oria, trying to make Cassia fall in love with me.”

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189. “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.”

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190. “And that is how it’s always been with Ky, I realize now, looking back. We have always seen him swimming along the surface. Only that first day did we see him dive deep.”

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

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192. “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.”

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193. “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