“Would I be an Archivist then?” I asked. “No,” she said. “You’d be a trader.” For a moment, I thought she said… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures" -Cassia 'Matched” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It’s not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain. (Xander)” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I love you," she whispers. "I love you," I say back. I choose her again and again and again until the pilot… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When we fall in love the first time, we don’t know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I wonder if they'll be able to resist. It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I help him to reach her. For a moment, I am a part of it all. Then I'm just apart.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Our time together feels like a storm, like wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“This summer I’d been spending a lot of time on other people’s deaths. Harley’s. Lisette’s. But somehow it had helped me feel… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“think of him risking everything each time he slips one napkin into his pocket. All these years he’s been so careful, but… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“The two of us hold each other's gazes for a long, unembarrassed moment and I feel that Ky knows. I'm not sure… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It's beautiful and it's real, but our time together could be as fleeting as snow on the plateau. We can either try… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I am different and that has nothing to do with you, I wanted to tell him. Leo is different and that has… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“For a moment on the top of that bare pain of rock I wonder if I should run behind or ahead-which is… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“But I also know we can’t plan on anyone else rescuing us. We have to do it ourselves.” — Ally Condie Copy Share
“Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“She knows how things fit together and move, but so few people understand her. She’s the most solitary person I’ve ever known.” — Ally Condie Copy Share
“There are many of them in the world, I think, good men and women with their frail deeds. Wondering what might have been, how… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“You wouldn't think you can forget but sometimes you can—for a moment or two. I've never been able to decide if I think that’s… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“It doesn't matter much anyway. I haven't slept well since he left. I can't dream. In some ways, that's the hardest part of having… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and the part… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“I wonder if they'll be able to resist. It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain.” — Ally Condie Copy Share
“I think of how many invisible injuries are possible. Ones scored on your heart, your brain, your bones. How do we all stand? I… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“I see a glint in her eye as she looks at me and it makes me smile. Hold our breath? she seems to say.… — Ally Condie Copy Share
“She’s trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted.” — Ally Condie Copy Share
