Jeanne

“There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
But it feels even better to find myself standing on solid ground, with someone holding on to me, pulling me back, and know that I'm doing the same for her" -Xander, 'Reached”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I draw in a 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 that nothing can change the fact of my father gone and under ground.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I realize that the Officials are right. Once you want something everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more. There is so much that I want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I wanted to preserve this moment, this slice of time when the night was cool and bright with reflected moonlight and the possibility of a kiss hung between us, full of unspent promise. Every event in my life after this would be different because I would have been kissed.”
― Alex Flinn, Bewitching