“I could write paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write. — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“For some reason, the act of writing them down makes me remember. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I could write stories; I could hide from the world and make my own instead of trying to change it or live… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Here," I say. "You can put music behind it, and it will be your own." And it strikes me that this is… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes paper is only paper," my mothers says. "Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in it's tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between… — 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
