347 Quotes by Ally Condie

Oh yes. His voice has music.

Long ago people used to say what they wanted out loud and hope that someone would give it to them. They called it praying.

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.

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

It’s all right to wonder.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more. I want to pick my work position. Marry who I choose. Eat pie for breakfast and run down a real street instead of on a tracker. Go fast when I want and slow when I want. Decide which poems I want to read and what words I want to write. There is so much that I want.

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.

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

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.