I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
Ally CondieI think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.
Ally CondieIf you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.
Ally CondieTheres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
Ally Condie