Cassia Reyes Quotes

“Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have”
― Ally Condie, Matched

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

“Mountains, I realize. That's what the ocean is. Those waves are peaks. The stars are lights in houses and on streets. 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, Crossed

“Parents are always giving things that are not taken”
― 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

“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

“I should be with Ky in the infirmary. i should be with Xander in prinson. I should be sorting for a cure. can only try to do all three and hope these pieces of myself are enough to find something that can make me whole”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Trust your words”
― Ally Condie, Matched

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

“He's never taught to dance, and yet he's guiding me.He dosen't notice because he's concentrating so hard on what he dosen't have-- what he thinks he can't do”
― 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

“Xander is my Match and my oldest friend and one of the best people I know. When I kissed him, it was sweet. I'm drawn to him and tied to him with the cords of a thousand different memories”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I think how this is always the way he is, giving me something even when most would think there was nothing left to do but let go”
― Ally Condie

“It is almost uncomfortable, this awareness of him. Each pause, each movement when he places a piece on the black and gray board. I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“In a story, you can turn to the front and being again and everyone lives once more.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I wouldn't care how small the world became as long as I had Cassia at the center of mine.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“And in a way, perhaps that means I love Xander best of all.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Ahora comprendo cuánto valor hace falta para escoger la vida que queremos, sea cual sea.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Ky can play this game . . . He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time.”
― 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, Matched

“I failed him because I cannot do for him what Ky does for me. I can't help Xander sing.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“The words aren't peaceful," Ky says.
"I know."
"Then why do they make me feel calm?" Ky asks in wonder. "I don't understand.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“The tiny feeling of loss deep within my heart surprises me. My peers will spend the next few days swooning over pictures of their Matches, bragging about them during meal hours at school, waiting for more and more bits of information to be revealed. Anticipating their first meeting, their second meeting, and so on. That mystery does not exist for Xander and me. I won't wonder what he is like or daydream about our first meeting.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“You lied about Xander's secret, didn't you? What is it?"
"I can't tell you."
"Why not?"
"It's not mine to tell," I say. "It's his." It's not just selfishness that keeps me from telling Cassia Xander's secret. I know he wanted to tell her himself. I owe him that. He knew my secret- my status as an Aberration- and never told anyone. Not even Cassia. This isn't a game. He's not my opponent and Cassia's not a prize.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Tell me why," she says. "Why would you want to lie to me? Why would you take a choice from me?"
Her gaze has softened and she's looking at me as Ky again- the person she loves- and somehow that's even worse. All the reasons I lied run through my head: because I can't lose you, because I was jealous, because I don't trust anyone, because I can't even trust myself, because, because, because.
"You know why," I say, anger flaring in me suddenly. At everything. Everyone. The Society, the Rising, my father, myself, Indie, Xander, Cassia.
"No, I don't," she beings, but I don't let her finish.
"Fear," I say, holding her gaze. "We were both afraid. I was afraid of losing you. You were afraid, back in the Borough. When you took my choice away from me.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I promised myself then that I wouldn't let fear make me into someone I didn't want to be.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Beliefs and myths are tied so closely together that you're never sure which is tale and which is true.”
― Ally Condie, Reached