Quote

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

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
Matched
Changes
Everything
Something

More quotes by Ally Condie

Image
Teens find out a lot from other teens.
Ally Condie
Image
There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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
Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?
Ally Condie
Image
Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
Ally Condie
Image
You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
Ally Condie
Image
Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.
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
It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
Ally Condie
Image
Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
Ally Condie
Image
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
Ally Condie
Image
In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.
Ally Condie
Image
And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
Ally Condie
Image
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
Ally Condie
Image
We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
Ally Condie
Image
I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.
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 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
Image
Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have
Ally Condie
Image
Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
Ally Condie