Abbie Riddle > Abbie's Quotes

“They have perfected the art of giving us just enough freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog I saw once when we visited my grandparents in the Farmlands. They've had decades to perfect this; why am I surprised when it works on me again and again and again? Even though I am ashamed of myself, I take the bone. I worry it between my teeth.”
― Ally Condie

“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, Matched

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“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

“Once you want something, everything changes.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“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

“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

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

“I love.
The most reckless thing of all.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“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

“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, Matched

“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn around, stunned, to see that the room is empty after all when before it at least had something, if not him. - CROSSED, chpt 2”
― Ally Condie , Crossed

“Because in the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go. CROSSED chapt 3”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Because once you love it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back. CROSSED chpt 6”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I feel that I stand at the edge of an ocean and something, some knowledge, laps at my feet. CROSSED chapt 12”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“He wanted to make things - changes - that would last. She always understood that what she did would fade away. CROSSED apt 25”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“It so strange to rake this journey together when there is such distance between us.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I close my eyes. I love KY. But I don't understand him. He won't let me reach him. I have made mistakes, too, I know it, but I am tired of chasing him through canyons and out onto plains and stretching out my hand only to have him take it some times and not others.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I've never known his whole story. maybe only parts of our stories can keep us safe. The whole can feel like too much to bear, whether it's the story of Society or a rebellion or a single person. Is that how he feels? That no one want the whole? That his truth is too much to bear?”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“We have all been carved out by our sorrow. Cut deep like canyon walls.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“We need hope, or else we cannot endure. So let her keep
this hope, Feyre. Let her imagine a better life. A better world.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“And then I am going to rattle the stars.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Pity those who don't feel anything at all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses