Atlantia Quotes

“We are not lost mermaids with seaweed hair and coins for eyes, but human girls, alive and found.
We are sisters, and we did not drown.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“Under star-dark seas and skies of gold
Live those Above and those Below
They sing and weep, both high and deep
While over and under the ocean rolls”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“People can be miracles.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“There are some things you only tell a sister. And some things you only ask of a sister.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“I am protected, shaped and built by what is outside, what they made of me, but also by what is inside, what I made of myself.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“So much of life is in the smallness of life. So much of life is in the smallness of moments. But they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“You can't let love make you afraid.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“You always have more to lose, until you die.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“You wouldn't believe how fast people can forget about someone.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“I can't help being happy. I'm alive.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“What are the gifts given to we who live Below?"
"Long life, health, strength, and happiness."
"What is the curse of those who live Above?"
"Short life, illness, weakness, and misery."
"Is this fair?"
"It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below."
"Then give thanks.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“People love a spectacle, an event. Give them something to watch and you will make them happy. “So much of life is in the smallness of moments,” my mother said. “But they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“Am meisten fürchten wir den Tod. Wir hoffen, den Moment unseres Todes zu beobachten, nicht zu erleben.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“Ich weiß, dass sein Schmerz echt war. Doch ich kann mich nicht um den Schmerz anderer kümmern. Mein eigener ist so groß, dass ich nur noch aus brennenden rohen Nerven bestehe. Die Energie aufzubringen, um meine wahre Stimme zu unterdrücken, verlangt mir alle Kraft ab.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“Ich sage nichts. Ich halte nicht viel von Bindungen außerhalb der Familie. Kein Band gleicht dem zwischen zwei Schwestern.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“Er hat keine Ahnung, wovon er redet. Er weiß nicht, dass er mit einer Person spricht, die noch nie mit jemandem reden konnte. Einer Person, die nur zwei Leute wirklich kannten. Und diese beiden Leute sind jetzt fort.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“Mein ganzes Leben lang habe ich versucht, aufrichtig zu sein. Doch zufrieden war ich nie.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“Nach dem Verlust meiner Mutter und meiner Schwester glaubte ich, dass ich nichts mehr zu verlieren hätte, doch ich habe mich geirrt. Man hat immer etwas zu verlieren. Solange man lebt jedenfalls.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“Die Welle der Hoffnung, die ich im Tempel spürte, ist an der Küste der Erschöpfung und des Verlusts gebrochen.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia