Ashton Pierce > Ashton's Quotes

“How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Because either way, whichever life I build, has to be built on truth.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Dreams don't smell or sound as strong as this.”
― Ally Condie

“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

“When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart”
― Elizabeth Chandler, Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates

“...you canʹt
always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or
fair. It just happens.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, Evercrossed

“He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, Evercrossed

“Everyday, every hour, I have held you close in my heart.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, Evercrossed

“Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, Evercrossed

“Its just the anniversary, she wanted to tell him. Its just this time of the year stirring up these memories. Everything will be all right. But she couldn't say that, because she wasn't sure it was true.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, Evercrossed

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

“Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he just lost. He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I love you."
lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back.
It's time. I feel it, I know it. My eyes on him, his on me, and both of us breathing, watching, tired of of waiting. Ky close his eyes, but mine are still open. what will it feel like, his lips on mine? Like a secret told, a promise kept? Like that line in the poem-a shower of all my days- silvery rain falling all around me, where the lighting meets the earth?
The whistle blows below us and the moment breaks. We are safe.
For now.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. They have perfected the art of giving us just enought 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... - Cassia”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I like the places where one part meets another, I think, eyes to cheek, wrist to hands.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
― 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

“Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“No one should die alone.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“To see how Grandfather handles leaving, and to
see how we manage being left.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“For 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, Matched

“They were too much to carry
so I left them behind
for a new life, in a new place
but no one forgot who I was.”
― 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

“Why?” Lon asks in a whine. “We spent half the summer marking these paths!” I think I see a faint smile on Ky’s face and I realize that he likes Lon. Who asks the questions no one else will ask even though he never gets an answer. It strikes me that this is a kind of bravery. A wearing-down kind of bravery, but bravery nonetheless.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Our time together feels like a storm, like wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape. It blows around me and tangles my hair, leaves water on my face, makes me know that I am alive, alive, alive. There are moments of calm and pause as there are in every storm, and moments when our words fork lightening, at least for each other.”
― Ally Condie, Matched