ally condie Quotes

And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.

- Ally Condie

I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is

- Ally Condie, Crossed

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

- Ally Condie

...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.

- Ally Condie

What are the gifts given to we who live Below?""Long life, health, strength, and happiness.""What is the curse of those who live Above?""Short life, illness, weakness, and misery.""Is this fair?""It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below.""Then give thanks.

- Ally Condie, Atlantia

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

- Ally Condie, Crossed

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

- Ally Condie

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

- Ally Condie, Atlantia

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

He watches the sun out of the world and the stars into it and sometimes I wonder if he watches the sun come up again. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment, even those that would otherwise seem dull and unremarkable?

- Ally Condie

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.