Jaylee > Jaylee's Quotes

“It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.
But I do not.
I do not.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Gay kids aren’t a “plot point” that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was constantly stuck in a book. Growing up as a lesbian, I was told over and over and over by the lack of gayness in said books that I did not exist. That I wasn’t important enough to tell stories about. That I was invisible. Why are we telling our kids this? Why are we telling them that they’re a minority, and they don’t deserve the same rights as straights, that they’re going to grow up in a world that despises them, that the intolerance of humanity will never change, that they’re worthless. It’s not true.”
― Sarah Diemer

“I'm so tired.
Once, I wanted to watch the floods coming into a canyon, to stand on the edge and see it happen, on ground that was safe but shaking. I'd like to hear the trees snapy away and see the water come higher, I thought, but only from a place where it couldn't reach me.
Now I think it might be a terrifying, bright relief to stand on the canyon floor and see the wall of water coming down, and to know this is it, I am finished, and before you could even complete the thought, you would be swallowed, and whole.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence than existence.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“I don't love him. But I take a treacherous delight in him.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes

“Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Painting the enemy as being as inhuman as possible is a great way to win a war.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.”
― Karen Healey, Guardian of the Dead

“If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“Halfway kindness is worse than none.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes

“Monsters were wild. Monsters were strong. Monsters were fierce and free.
If I was monstrous...perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.”
― Sarah Diemer

“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Mummy Case

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Words mean what you want them to mean.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Long ago people used to say what they wanted out loud and hope that someone would give it to them. They called it praying.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.”
― Beth Revis, A Million Suns

“She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Madness Underneath

“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.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“It is not the gentle kiss of a couple on a first date, nor is it the kiss of a man driven by simple lust. He kisses me with the desperation of a dying man who believes the magic of eternal life is in this kiss.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“Once you want something, everything changes.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I 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 Condie, Matched

“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.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“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.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I could write stories; I could hide from the world and make my own instead of trying to change it or live in it. I could make paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land below us.

Is this what I've missed?

The stars have come to the earth, and the ocean has turned over the ground; dark waves meet the sky. They are unmoving, barely visible but for the light of the sun rising behind them.

Mountains, I realize. That's what the ocean is. Those waves are peaks. The stars are lights in houses and on streets. The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.”
― Ally Condie, Reached