347 Quotes by Ally Condie

His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know.

My fingers smell like soil and my lips taste like sugar and I’m so awake right now I wonder if I’ll be able to sleep tonight.

Which one is the true one, I don’t ask, they don’t tell.

She’s not the kind of person to watch someone else build a boat and set sail without her.

People love a spectacle, an event. Give them something to watch and you will make them happy. “So much of life is in the smallness of moments,” my mother said. “But they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

I run for her. I run for them. For me.

This is the difference between us. I live to sort, he knows how to create.

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.

Knowledge doesn’t fail us.