Reached Quotes

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

“Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“When we fall in love the first time, we don't know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we choose to love again. There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.”
― Allie Condie

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

“Some people think the stars must look closer from up here.
They don't.
When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are--how impossible to reach.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“She bends down to kiss him, and his trembling hand reaches for hers, but he can't move it far enough yet. So I lift up his hand and put it on hers. I help him to reach her. For a moment, I'm part of it all. Then I'm just apart.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I weave the papers through the branches, in a long loop. Up and down, my knees bending. My arms above my head, like the girls I saw once in a painting in a cave. There is a rhythm to this, a keeping of time. I wonder if I'm dancing.”
― Allie Condie, Reached

“I never needed the Society to Match me.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“she looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached her.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

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

“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

“If they feel something, they fight. If you were in a place with no pain, why would you want to come back?”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“The way the two of them look at each other is like touching.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I think we may have reached the point where guns need to be confiscated from police officers.”
― Steven Magee

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

“I wanted Cassia to choose me. In some ways, our being Matched is the biggest strike against me. How was she supposed to love me when the Society said she should?”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“And out of nowhere, I think: So this is how it feels to stand at the edge of a canyon.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt.”
― Steven Magee

“Word-Power'

Being stuck in my room,
I've become a world traveler.
If you wonder how...
just guess how I've reached you right now”
― Munia Khan

“Life is not about a goal to be achieved, but a goal to be reached.”
― Pawan Pandit, Alive Sentence

“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

“I know that I’m not the only one doing these things, committing small acts of rebellion. There are people swimming against the current and shadows moving slowly in the deep. I have been the one looking up when something dark passed before the sun. And I have been the shadow itself, slipping along the place where earth and water meet the sky.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

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