Crossed Quotes

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

“Love has different shades. Like the way I loved Cassia when I thought she'd never love me. The way I loved her on the Hill. The way I love her now that she came into the canyon for me. It's different. Deeper. I thought I loved her and wanted her before, but as we walk through the canyon together I realize this could be more than a new shade. A whole new color.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“For a moment nothing happens. The figure stands still and I stand cold and alive and-
He starts to run. I make my way down the rocks, slipping, sliding, trying to get to the plain. I wish, I think, my feet clumsy, moving too fast, not fast enough, I wish i could run, I wish I'd written a whole poem, I wish I kept the compass-
And then I reach the plain and wish for nothing but what I have. Ky. Running toward me. I have never seen him run like this, fast, free, strong, wild. He looks so beautiful, his body moves so right. He stops just close enough for me to see the blue of his eyes and forget the red on my hands and the green I wish I wore. "You're here," he says, breathing hard and hungry. sweat and dirt cover his face, and he looks at me as though I'm the only thing he ever needed to see. I open my mouth to say yes. But I only have time to breathe in before he closes the last of the distance. All I know is the kiss.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Cassia and I sit as near to each other as we can. She leans into me and I keep my arms around her. I don't fool myself that I hold her together- she does that on her own- but holding her keeps me from flying apart.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Two little dark figures, looking up. Are they looking at me? Is is him? This far away there's only one way to know. I point to the sky.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Everyday the sun rolls by
Across the sky and through night's door

Every night the stars light high
Above the Earth and shine once more

Any day her boat might fly
Across the waves and to the shore”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“She may be your wife, but she is my soul," I whisper against his ear. "And I will cut you up piece by piece and burn your empire until it's soot, just so I can watch her be queen of the ashes.”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“Good-byes are like this. You can’t always mark them well at the moment of separation—no matter how deep they cut. (Ky Markham)”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Si seulement tu savais quel est mon amour pour toi. You consume me, Amaya. Break apart my faith with the fire of a thousand suns and dominate every nightmare until all I dream is you.”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“I can cross my arms and I can cross my legs, but nothing seems to cross my mind.”
― J.R. Rim, Write like no one is reading 2

“I'm going to love you. Because loving you hurts so much more.”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“She was a vision in her violence, a fallen angel seeking vengeance for being wronged. She is a masterpiece, and she is mine.”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“If she is a succubus, then seduce me. If she is my devil, then I will gladly burn.”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“There's darkness in us all, petite pécheresse. We just have to learn to control it.”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“If I could find one, I would cover the bark with her name the way I used to cover her hand with mine on the Hill.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“A crush on a fucking priest. Leave it to me to finally have sexual attraction to a man who's so off-limits, he's a one-way ticket to hell.”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“It’s not my fault, I remind myself. I’m only human. And she is…all-consuming.
Like hellfire.”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“I'm a simple man who's been reduced to his base instincts to hunt, capture, keep.
I want to hear her voice.
Smell her skin.
Paint my sickness on her soul.”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“So, say, when they're out in their little boats and they hear voices in the night, they forget whatever destination they had in mind and they go tearing straight towards the sound, screaming their heads off.”
― Simon Spurrier

“The Glory of God is lost if the boundary is crossed”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Me can read good.”
― Eliza Crewe, Crushed

“Some people can’t help being leaders. It’s in their blood and bones and brains, and there’s no getting around it.
And some people follow.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I walked away in the manner that we always do from horror: believing that refusal to accept reality might just negate it, knowing that it walks one constant, smirking step behind us.

I walked until the vast, black truth of what had happened overwhelmed me, becoming part of my existence, pivotal--" - Ian Cowley, Crossed: Badlands #1”
― Garth Ennis, Crossed: Badlands #1

“It's dirty.
Depraved.
Incredible”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“I find my peace in her. She is my sanctuary. My home. My soul.”
― Emily McIntire, Crossed

“Don't afraid from the path which you crossed for the first time، but be aware of new obstacles.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“I assure you the thought never even crossed my mind, Lord.”
“Indeed? Then if I were you I’d sue my face for slander”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic