38 quotes found
“Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it”
“Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.”
“Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”
“Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back”
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
“It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel.”
“Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. Its the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe its like the po...”
“Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt a...”
“Thats how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)”
“I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way...”
“He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.”
“at first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deepit smelled like sage, my favorite smellI went up on the plateau to watch it cometo see the gifts it always broughtbut this rain changed from...”
“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”
“At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about mys...”
“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.”
“Ky gives me three gifts for my birthday. A poem, a kiss and the hopeless, beautiful belief that things might work. When I open my eyes... I say, "I didn't give you anything for your birthday, i don...”
“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 ang...”
“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,”
“This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.”
“It was a little thing, a baby tree, but still it tangled with things around it and required care to move. And when she pulled it out, it's roots still clung to Earth from it's old home.”
“All of the things that were shown in early studies to be good for longevityhappy marriages, healthy bodiesare ours to have. We live long,good lives. We die on our eightieth birthdays, surrounded by...”
