The Unwedding Quotes

“It was interesting how every single person in the world had some kind of specialized knowledge, whether it was from the work they did or the passions they had or the way their lives had turned out. You came to know certain things specifically and deeply, sometimes by choice and sometimes by circumstance, occasionally by both.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“Like love, friendship could sometimes be a falling, immediate and absolute, and it could last and last.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“For some, the earth had already come down and the world would never, ever look or feel the same. The geography of their lives would always have a before and an after, would always have scarring and ruin and new roads.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“If only wanting could make things happen.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“The pain of grief and loss and everything. Sometimes she had to get away and cry. Other times she had to fold up and ache.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“The pain on her face was naked, raw. Ellery knew that feeling. When you were not a person anymore. You were a nerve ending. You were loss. You had become nothing and yet you felt everything.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“Together didn't necessarily equal safe. In fact, it could be the most unsafe thing of all, depending on who you were with.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“Some people are butterflies. Like Olivia. And others”—she turned, looked at Ellery, her eyes assessing—“are moths. Drawn to the flame.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“No matter what some people chose to do with the love you gave them, there would be others who would take it in the purest sense, who would give it back to you in ways singular and beautiful as a note written by hand, as a redwood tree, as a piece of art.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“You can’t ever repeat the art.” Her”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“You were loss. You had become nothing and yet you felt everything.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“she wondered if she were grateful for the lessons learned after the accident had happened just over two years ago—were they what had made it possible to survive Luke’s leaving?”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“How is it possible to work literally every minute of this day and have nothing to show for it?”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” —Sarah Williams”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“It was interesting how every single person in the world had some kind of specialized knowledge, whether it was from the work they did or the passions they had or the way their lives had turned out. You came to know certain things specifically and deeply, sometimes by choice and sometimes by circumstance, occasionally by both.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“Something old, something new. Something borrowed, something blue. Someone lost, someone wed. Someone broken, someone dead.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“Once, she’d said to Luke, “Do you think I’m a good mom? A good wife?” and he’d said, “I think you’re a good friend,”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“You don’t even know me, she’d thought. I owe you nothing.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“always invite someone else to eat with us the first night,”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“We’ve been on enough trips together to make a few ground rules,” Ravi said. “Never share a room is one of them. Eat dessert every night is another. Also, we steal something on every trip.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“Everything is something else underneath”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“It's very Hollywood starlet of you to succumb to dehydration.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. - Barbara Ward”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“There are far too many hard things in this world, she thought. Even beautiful people who married other beautiful people in startlingly beautiful places couldn’t escape them.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding

“She couldn’t bring herself to look at his face again, but she felt like she could hear the rain on it.”
― Ally Condie, The Unwedding