347 Quotes by Ally Condie

I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don’t know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.

They say you should always teach a person’s name first. That way, even if they never learn to write anything else, they’ll always have something.

He’s in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

Two little dark figures, looking up. Are they looking at me? Is is him? This far away there’s only one way to know. I point to the sky.

Of course, one person can be the world.

There’s a reason they didn’t keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight.

You can’t let love make you afraid.

No one should die alone.

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.