Ky Quotes

“I love.
The most reckless thing of all.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Love has different shades. Like the way I loved Cassia when I thought she'd never love me. The way I loved her on the Hill. The way I love her now that she came into the canyon for me. It's different. Deeper. I thought I loved her and wanted her before, but as we walk through the canyon together I realize this could be more than a new shade. A whole new color.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“This is a cruel thing to do because when someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt you. It's why I give mine away in pieces, even to Cassia.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Cassia and I sit as near to each other as we can. She leans into me and I keep my arms around her. I don't fool myself that I hold her together- she does that on her own- but holding her keeps me from flying apart.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“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

“Things happen whether you deserve them or not”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“at first when the rain fell
from the sky so wide and deep
it smelled like sage, my favorite smell
I went up on the plateau to watch it come
to see the gifts it always brought
but this rain changed from blue to black
and left
nothing.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Ky is heavy in my mind, deep in my heart, his palms warm on my empty hands. I have to try to find him. Loving him gave me wings and all my work has given me the strength to move them.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions... He learns by watching.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“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

“The two of us hold each other's gazes for a long, unembarrassed moment and I feel that Ky knows. I'm not sure what he knows - whether he knows me, or just something about me.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Right then I knew we were feeling the same thing. I knew we loved Cassia, if not exactly the same way, then the same amount. And the amount was: completely.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“What did you think about?" I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won't do it again. And besides, I wasn't thinking about Xander either.
"I thought about angels," I say.
"Angels?"
"You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven."
"Do you think anyone believes in them anymore?" He asks.
"I don't know. No. Do you?"
"I believe in you," he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. "That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“At the worst times, the best plan was often no plan. And Ky excelled at coming up with no plan.”
― Gillian Bronte Adams, Orphan's Song

“Reaching and reached. Cassia”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“But if you were matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
"You," he says, almost before I've finished.
"You,”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Louisville, an hour after dark, is a carpet of gilt thumbtacks below them, with straight, twinkling lines like strings of beads leading out from it. Southeastward now, toward the Tennessee state-line. ("Jane Brown's Body")”
― Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

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

“I don't fool myself that I hold her together- she does that on her own- but holding her keeps me from flying apart”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Matt Higle, a devoted business professional, finds immense fulfillment in his calling as an ordained minister. His love for Jesus shines through in everything he does, and he strives to share that love with everyone he meets.”
― Matt Higle

“Meanwhile, I learned my future depended not on the plans of another, but on fate and myself.”
― Harriette Simpson Arnow, Old Burnside