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Crossed (Matched, #2) QUOTES

Crossed (Matched, #2) QUOTES

1 " Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

2 " Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

3 " In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

4 " Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

5 " I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

6 " If you love someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how can you do nothing at all?
You might as well take their words out of the dirt and try to snatch them from the wind.
Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

7 " It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

8 " The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

9 " And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

10 " The rain turns lighter, turns to snow. And I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

11 " I climb into the dark for you
Are you waiting in the stars for me? "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

12 " Because in the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go. CROSSED chapt 3 "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

13 " For a moment nothing happens. The figure stands still and I stand cold and alive and-
He starts to run. I make my way down the rocks, slipping, sliding, trying to get to the plain. I wish, I think, my feet clumsy, moving too fast, not fast enough, I wish i could run, I wish I'd written a whole poem, I wish I kept the compass-
And then I reach the plain and wish for nothing but what I have. Ky. Running toward me. I have never seen him run like this, fast, free, strong, wild. He looks so beautiful, his body moves so right. He stops just close enough for me to see the blue of his eyes and forget the red on my hands and the green I wish I wore. "You're here," he says, breathing hard and hungry. sweat and dirt cover his face, and he looks at me as though I'm the only thing he ever needed to see. I open my mouth to say yes. But I only have time to breathe in before he closes the last of the distance. All I know is the kiss. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

14 " Two little dark figures, looking up. Are they looking at me? Is is him? This far away there's only one way to know. I point to the sky. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

15 " Sé que querías decirme que siempre me recordarías, Cassia, pero tengo miedo de que me olvides. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

16 " If I could find one, I would cover the bark with her name the way I used to cover her hand with mine on the Hill. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

17 " En cambio trazo una curva. Una ola. Como un mar, o un retal de seda verde que ondea el viento. Cric, cric. Ahora ésta roca, moldeada por otras fuerzas , el agua y el viento, está modificada por mí. Y eso me gusta. Yo siempre me transformo en lo que otras personas quieren. Con Cassia en la Loma: Sólo que entonces era yo mismo. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

18 " I love.
The most reckless thing of all. "

― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)

19 " 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 (Matched, #2)

20 " 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 (Matched, #2)