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"Reunion" Quotes

In "Reunion" by Ally Condie, a group of friends must confront secrets and past choices as they gather for a ten-year high school reunion that changes everything.

Quotes

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

Ally Condie

memorylasting

I wish they could see that I have made something out of myself, something that I am proud of, that I am not just swimming in the shadows of who they are.

Ally Condie

achievementself-worth

I think there are some things that you can and should walk away from, and I think there are some things that when you walk away from, you wonder. You wonder if maybe you shouldn't have.

Ally Condie

regretdecision-making

I like the idea that a good book can take you to another place and make you think, make you feel. I like how books can change you and make you different than you were before you read them.

Ally Condie

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It's strange how many ways there are to miss a person.

Ally Condie

missing someoneemotions

Sometimes when we lose something, we can't help but think of all the things we missed out on.

Ally Condie

lossregret

Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

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homebelonging

People don’t change. There is only more or less that we can see of them.

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changeperception

Sometimes the hardest part of existing without someone is remembering how to breathe.

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In memory, I will always see you walk into the room, dark and beautiful, and I will wonder how I ever thought you ordinary.

Ally Condie

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