Quote

There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

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
Crush
Falling
Extraordinary
Fall
Firsts
First
Something
Time

More quotes by Ally Condie

Image
Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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
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
We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
Ally Condie
Image
I love. The most reckless thing of all.
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
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
I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
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
I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
Ally Condie
Image
Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?
Ally Condie
Image
Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
Ally Condie
Image
It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
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
So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.
Ally Condie
Image
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
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
I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
Ally Condie
Image
Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
Ally Condie