Ally Condie, Crossed

“...in the end you can't always choose what you keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”

“Decidí que eran los pensamientos en tu propia mente los que importaban más que cualquier otra cosa”

“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.”

“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn around, stunned, to see that the room is empty after all, when before it at least had something, if not him.”