Quote

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Ally Condie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Wait
Hold
Pieces
Strange
Waiting
Past
Futures
Matched

More quotes by Ally Condie

Image
Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
Ally Condie
Image
I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
Ally Condie
Image
There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
Ally Condie
Image
If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.
Ally Condie
Image
I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
Ally Condie
Image
How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
Ally Condie
Image
Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
Ally Condie
Image
Teens find out a lot from other teens.
Ally Condie
Image
And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
Ally Condie
Image
Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?
Ally Condie
Image
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.
Ally Condie
Image
It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
Ally Condie
Image
And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
Ally Condie
Image
When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
Ally Condie
Image
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
Ally Condie
Image
You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
Ally Condie
Image
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
Ally Condie
Image
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
Ally Condie
Image
I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.
Ally Condie
Image
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.
Ally Condie