347 Quotes by Ally Condie

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.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible

We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.

Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its 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 there between footsteps makes up our lives.

Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle-it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?

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

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

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

There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.