Monica > Monica's Quotes

“Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“You're my light, Amanda. In a life full of shadows, and darkness, and monsters, you're my light. When the blackness fades, and the memories subside, you'll be there. You're always there.”
― Jay McLean, More Than Him

“Some things will always be beautiful, even in the face of death.”
― Jay McLean, Kick, Push

“The future is unclear. But it’s still mine.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“It's never really lost to you as long as you remember it.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

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

“There is satisfaction in knowing that something good and right and true was part of you. That you had the blessing, gift, good fortune, perfect luck, to know someone like this, to pass through fire and water and stone and sky together and emerge, all of you, strong enough to hold on, strong enough to let go. (Cassia)”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“... and of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Because sometimes words were so pitifully inadequate, and I knew that, but I had to try anyway.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives(Cassia 'Reached')”
― Ally Condie

“But i must count this journey,
all
For it has brought me Thee.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“When things like this happen—when what was meant to help results in harm, when a salve brings pain instead of healing—it is clear how wrong even choices intended to be right can become.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to just face it.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“The moon is a loyal companion.
It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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

“Time goes on even when we do not.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

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

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“The darkness behind doesn't worry me; neither do the stars ahead. 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, how hard walking could be.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“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, Atlantia

“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Uglies Trilogy

“Climbing into dark for you
Will you wait in stars for me?”
― Ally Condie, Reached