Top 81 Ky Quotes
#1. Later that night I realize that Ky did not give me any more of his story and I did not ask. Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and the part we write together sometimes feels like the only part that matters.
Ally Condie
#2. I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.
Lee Majors
#3. Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, his eyes wide and deep like the oceans in other tales or like the sky in his own.
Ally Condie
#4. Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it's like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham)
Ally Condie
#5. Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music school. I grew up with loving, supportive, encouraging parents that let me make my own world, and I wish that for every single child.
Madi Diaz
#6. But suddenly I hope Xander's right. I hope part of me fell in love with Ky before anyone else told me to.
Ally Condie
#7. How do you spell it?" I asked. It sounded like Ky-den. Jay spelled it for me. "It's A-I, like Thai food," he explained.
Wendy Higgins
#8. No one knows I can do this," Ky says. "Now i have a secret of yours and you have one of mine.
Ally Condie
#9. 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
#10. Ky's story, bit by bit, is turning to ash and nothing. Except. He remembers it, and now I do, too.
Ally Condie
#11. Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he just lost. He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time.
Ally Condie
#12. Ky watches me with that look in his eyes, the one sad and full of love at the same time, the one he gives me when he knows something I don't, something he thinks has been stolen from me.
Ally Condie
#13. Being with Ky, being with Xander -both things feel like standing in the light. Different types of light, but neither feels dark.
Ally Condie
#14. I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?
John Muir
#15. I fly toward Ky and away from Xander and into what is Outer, different.
Ally Condie
#16. Ky, this a dance and at a dance you do this thing called dancing."-Isaac
Micalea Smeltzer
#17. I want him when you're done with him," Rach pipes up, sending me a teasing grin.
"You'll be waiting a while," I reply, accepting a glass of champagne from Ky. "Like eternity.
Siobhan Davis
#18. It could," Ky agrees. He's no longer smiling but his eyes are mischievous.
Ally Condie
#19. I will try to forget that Ky said "home" when he looked into my eyes.
Ally Condie
#20. Close your eyes," I say to Ky, and I bend down, his breathing above me while he waits. "There," I say, and he looks at what I've written. I love you.
Ally Condie
#21. In Ky's eyes is such complete love and hunger that it goes through me like the sharp, high note of a bird in the canyon, echoing all the way through my body. I am seen and known, if not yet touched. The
Ally Condie
#22. So many beginnings. I tell myself that in a way it's good that I haven't found Ky yet, because I still don't know what to whisper to him when I see him, which words would be the very best ones to give.
Ally Condie
#23. Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and that's changed everything.
Mike Pence
#24. He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.
Gene Mauch
#25. I think of my second lost compass sinking to the bottom of the river, like the stone it was before Ky changed it.
Ally Condie
#26. I was trying to find a way to you," Ky says. "I wanted to cross the plain and get back to the Society somehow. We took some things from the farmers' township for trade.
Ally Condie
#27. Why care about a flat planet populated by flat people? Who cares about a place where there is no Ky?
Ally Condie
#28. I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.
Ally Condie
#29. Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions ... He learns by watching.
Ally Condie
#30. Watching Ky wake is better than a sunrise.
Ally Condie
#31. Markham," I tell him. "Ky Markham." Because that's the name she knows me by. That's my real name now.
Ally Condie
#32. Ky is heavy in my mind, deep in my heart, his palms warm on my empty hands. I have to try to find him. Loving him gave me wings and all my work has given me the strength to move them.
Ally Condie
#33. Ky smiles then, a smile I've never seen before. It's the kind of daring, reckless smile that could make people follow him straight into a firing, a flood.
Ally Condie
#34. At the worst times, the best plan was often no plan. And Ky excelled at coming up with no plan.
Gillian Bronte Adams
#35. I should be with Ky in the infirmary. i should be with Xander in prinson. I should be sorting for a cure. can only try to do all three and hope these pieces of myself are enough to find something that can make me whole
Ally Condie
#36. The two of us hold each other's gazes for a long, unembarrassed moment and I feel that Ky knows. I'm not sure what he knows - whether he knows me, or just something about me.
Ally Condie
#37. Ky wants someone to see him. He wants me to see him.
Ally Condie
#38. This is one of the reasons I need Ky, I realize. Because when I am with him, I feel.
Ally Condie
#39. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. (Ky Markham)
Ally Condie
#40. I know the Otherlands are to her what Ky is to me, the best, most beautiful place, not fully realized, but full of promise.
Ally Condie
#41. They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place.
Ally Condie
#42. But my father goes on.And I've noticed other things,too.I think you're in love with Ky Markham.I think you want to find him,wherever he's gone.
Ally Condie
#43. He says my name, over and over as we move together, until I'm caught in a strange place between weak and strong, between dizziness and clarity and need and satiety and give and take and ... "Ky," I say back.
Ally Condie
#44. I shouldn't have been surprised by the way at the way she fell in love with Ky because it's the way I wanted her to fall in love with me: completely.
Ally Condie
#45. So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him is so strong I can hardly stand it ... I think of him, I think of him, I think of him.
Ally Condie
#46. And that is how it's always been with Ky, I realize now, looking back. We have always seen him swimming along the surface. Only that first day did we see him dive deep.
Ally Condie
#47. Burning the napkin with that part of his story on it is one of the hardest things I've ever done. Like the books out at the Restoration site, like Grandfather's poem, Ky's story, bit by bit, is turning into ash and nothing.
Ally Condie
#48. Rick Santorum is so conservative; he thinks KY Jelly is jam made in Kentucky.
Jay Leno
#49. Louisville, an hour after dark, is a carpet of gilt thumbtacks below them, with straight, twinkling lines like strings of beads leading out from it. Southeastward now, toward the Tennessee state-line. ("Jane Brown's Body")
Cornell Woolrich
#50. I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#52. We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#54. The way the two of them look at each other is like touching.
Ally Condie
#55. If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#56. Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#57. I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#58. Are you waiting for a knight in shining armor, Ren? Or will you take this soldier with a broken sword who is willing to take his last breath fighting by your side?
Ky Lehman
#59. Neither of us moves for a moment, locked instead in each other's eyes and in the branches of this Hill we might never finish climbing.
Ally Condie
#60. And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#61. After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#62. After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#63. If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#64. By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#65. Do not go gentle into that good night.
Ally Condie
#66. Right then I knew we were feeling the same thing. I knew we loved Cassia, if not exactly the same way, then the same amount. And the amount was: completely.
Ally Condie
#67. And the drops of rain. They are delicate, at first, their splashes graceful against pavement. Soon, though, the soft patter grows into a furious storm.
Ky Grabowski
#68. Things happen whether you deserve them or not
Ally Condie
#69. From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#71. South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#72. By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#73. I can feel the grip of lost lives beneath me, starved hearts hoping to escape their shadowy fates.
Ky Grabowski
#74. Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are - how impossible to reach.
Ally Condie
#75. The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#76. This is a cruel thing to do because when someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt you. It's why I give mine away in pieces, even to Cassia.
Ally Condie
#77. I love.
The most reckless thing of all.
Ally Condie
#78. Okay, listen. From what Shade said, Roag got toasted like a burnt marshmallow. He would have been nearly destroyed, right down to his junk." Wraith grinned. "Which is really fucking funny.
Larissa Ione
#79. Cassia and I sit as near to each other as we can. She leans into me and I keep my arms around her. I don't fool myself that I hold her together- she does that on her own- but holding her keeps me from flying apart.
Ally Condie
#80. Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#81. During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
Nguyen Cao Ky
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