“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Dating, Love, what ifs
“Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and…”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: breakup, Memories, Bitter, self-preservation, Pain
“We can’t plan on anyone else rescuing us. We have to do it ourselves.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Rescue, saving, Independent
“When we fall in love the first time, we don’t know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we choose to love again.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Love, First Love, risks
“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, amazon.comTagged: Growing Apart, Distance, Loss
“Things happen whether you deserve them or not.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Fate, Destiny, deserving
“A little surge of bitterness goes through me like someone's shot it right into my veins with a syringe. But I know how to get over the feeling: remember that it doesn't do any good.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Bitter, Feelings, useless
“Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: caring, Love, Friendship, Vulnerable, Weak
“Sometimes it seems like everything I’ve done has been to help you be ready for someone else.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating, preparation
“We have all been carved out by our sorrow. Cut deep like canyon walls.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Sorrow, Pain, Suffering
“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Decisions, Choices, Letting Go, Loss
“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Love, Change, possibilities
“Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Memories, Remembering
“When someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt you. It's why I give mine away in pieces.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Stories, Knowledge, Friendship, hurt
“You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Change, Life, Journey, Moving Forward
“Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Powerful, Dating, Love, Relationship
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Love, Time, Loss
“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, amazon.comTagged: Hope, Faith, Death
“Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: forget, Memories, Pain
“Why are some things easier to write than say?”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Writing, expression, Words, Feelings
“You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, Joy, Choices
“It is strange that absence can feel like presence.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Absence, Alone, Presence
“I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blind eyes and sticky 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, amazon.comTagged: Butterflies, cocoon, trapped, Weak
“One person can be the world.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Love, Everything, Dating, Relationships
“I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Misunderstanding, People, Confusion
“This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Lies, Balance
“What is the point of having something lovely if you never share it? It would be like having a poem, a beautiful wild poem that no one else has, and burning it.”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: poem, Poetry, sharing
“Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to…”— Ally Condie, amazon.comTagged: Writing, Painting, Singing, Death, Fear