Reached
Ally Condie
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”
“If 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.”
“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”
“In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.”
“I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”
“Words mean what you want them to mean.”
“There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.”
“I remember what Anna called the three of us.The Pilot. The Poet. The Physic. They are in all of us. I believe this. They every person might have a way to fly, a line of poetry to put down for others to see, a hand to heal.”
“Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”
“And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed.”
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