Shadow

“For some reason the neatly ordered and abandoned books make me feel sad. Tired. I wish Cassia were with me. She'd turn each page and read every word. I can picture her in the dim light of the cave with her bright eyes and her smile and I close my eyes. That shadowy memory might be as close as I come to seeing her again. We have the map, but the distance we still have to cross looks almost insurmountable.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.”
― Joshua Harris

“If you loved someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how can you do nothing at all? You might as well take their words out of the dirt and try to snatch them from the wind. Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I climb into the dark for you. Are you waiting in the stars for me?”
― Ally Condie, Crossed