347 Quotes by Ally Condie

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.

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

And when I see Ky again, which I know will happen, I will whisper the words I have written in his ear, against his lips. And they will change from ash and nothing into flesh and blood.

Death will not take the people I love. Our journey will end differently.

But I didn't see it. I believed him unchanging, a stone in all good senses of the word, solid, dependable, something and someone you could build upon. But he is as we all are: light as air, transient as wisps of cloud before the sun, beautiful and fleeting, and if I ever did truly have hold of him, that has ended now.

Es curioso cómo nos aferramos a los objetos del pasado mientras aguardamos nuestro futuro.

And 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.

I know you meant that you would always remember me, Cassia, but I'm afraid you might forget.

Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in it's tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.