Ky Markham Quotes

“Good-byes are like this. You can’t always mark them well at the moment of separation—no matter how deep they cut. (Ky Markham)”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“The pain wants to eat me away. 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

“When it rains, I remember”
― Ally Condie, Matched

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

“Ky can play this game . . . He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“The words aren't peaceful," Ky says.
"I know."
"Then why do they make me feel calm?" Ky asks in wonder. "I don't understand.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“When you've lost everything, why not take what you can before they come down on you ?”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I know you came into the Carving for me, Cassia. But the Rising is the one place I don't know if I can go for you.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“You lied about Xander's secret, didn't you? What is it?"
"I can't tell you."
"Why not?"
"It's not mine to tell," I say. "It's his." It's not just selfishness that keeps me from telling Cassia Xander's secret. I know he wanted to tell her himself. I owe him that. He knew my secret- my status as an Aberration- and never told anyone. Not even Cassia. This isn't a game. He's not my opponent and Cassia's not a prize.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Tell me why," she says. "Why would you want to lie to me? Why would you take a choice from me?"
Her gaze has softened and she's looking at me as Ky again- the person she loves- and somehow that's even worse. All the reasons I lied run through my head: because I can't lose you, because I was jealous, because I don't trust anyone, because I can't even trust myself, because, because, because.
"You know why," I say, anger flaring in me suddenly. At everything. Everyone. The Society, the Rising, my father, myself, Indie, Xander, Cassia.
"No, I don't," she beings, but I don't let her finish.
"Fear," I say, holding her gaze. "We were both afraid. I was afraid of losing you. You were afraid, back in the Borough. When you took my choice away from me.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I imagine these drops of rain hitting the scales of the sandstone fish I carved for Vick. Every drop helps the poisoned stream, I think, holding my hands out open wide. Not catching the drops or trying to hold them. I'm letting them leave their mark and then letting them go.
Let go. Of my parents, and the pain of what happened to them. Of what I failed to do. Of all the people I failed to save or bury. Of my jealously of Xander. Of my guilt over what happened to Vick. Of worrying about what I can never be and who I never was in the first place.
Let go of it all.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I promised myself then that I wouldn't let fear make me into someone I didn't want to be.”
― Ally Condie, Reached