Emma Cooper > Emma's Quotes

“It's nice, isn't it... to be part of something greater than yourself.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“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. (Xander)”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Words mean what you want them to mean.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I remember what Anna called the three of us.
The Pilot. The Poet. The Physic.
They are in all of us. I believe this. They every person might have a way to fly, a line of poetry to put down for others to see, a hand to heal.”
― ally condie, Reached

“In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“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, Reached

“You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I know you love me. I love you, I always will, but things can't hold like this. They have to break. You say you don't mind, that you will wait for me, but I think that you do mind, and you should. Because we've done too much waiting in our lives, Xander. Don't wait for me anymore. I hope for love for you.

I hope for this more than anything else, maybe even more than my own happiness. And in a way, perhaps that means I love Xander best of all.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Sometimes paper is just paper, words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to remember that.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“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 our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Which goes to show that caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“It's not all gone. She loved someone before and so did I. The Society and the Rising and the world are all still out there, pressing against us. But Lei holds them away. She's made enough space for two people to stand up together, whether or not any Society or Rising says that they can. She's done it before. The amazing thing is that she's not afraid to do it again. 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.

There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
But if feels even better to find myself standing on solid ground, with someone holding on to me, pulling me back, and know that I'm doing the same for her.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham)”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“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, Matched

“I know the Otherlands are to her what Ky is to me, the best, most beautiful place, not fully realized, but full of promise.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“My mother holds Bram tightly. I draw i ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry, when you can;t cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.I want to do something to make this better, even though I know tha nothing can change the fact of my father gone and under ground”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?” I ask.
“We thought he might,” my mother says.
“Why didn’t you stop him?”
“We didn’t want to take away your choices,” my mother says.
“But Grandfather never did tell me about the Rising,” I say.
“I think he wanted you to find your own way,” my mother says. She smiles. “In that way, he was a true rebel. I think that’s why he chose that argument with your father as his favorite memory. Though he was upset when the fight happened, later he came to see that your father was strong in choosing his own path, and he admired him for it.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Some people think the stars must look closer from up here.
They don't.
When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Who knows why that man planted those fields? Perhaps he knew we’d need the flowers for a cure. Maybe he just thought they were beautiful, like my mother did. But we do find answers in beauty, more often than not.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Some people think the stars must look closer up here.
They don't.
When you're up here, you realize how distant they realy are-how impossible to reach.

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― Ally Condie, Reached

“Perhaps this is what I learned in the canyons: What I am, what I'm not, what I'll give, and what I won't.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“And I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“But I didn't see it. I believed him unchanging, a stone in all good senses of the word, solid, dependable, something and someone you could build upon. But he is as we all are: light as air, transient as wisps of cloud before the sun, beautiful and fleeting, and if I ever did truly have hold of him, that has ended now.”
― Ally Condie, Reached