I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to…

“If I could find one, I would cover the bark with her name the way I used to cover her hand with mine on…

— Ally Condie

“trying to tough what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And out of nowhere, I think: So this is how it feels to stand at the edge of a canyon.”

— Ally Condie

“I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.”

— Ally Condie

“i wouldn't care how small the world became as long as i had Cassia at the center of mine”

— Ally Condie

“And in a way, perhaps that means I love Xander best of all.”

— Ally Condie

“So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I mean so…

— Ally Condie

“If they feel something, they fight. If you were in a place with no pain, why would you want to come back?”

— Ally Condie

“In a story, you can turn to the front and being again and everyone lives once more.”

— Ally Condie

“Sé que querías decirme que siempre me recordarías, Cassia, pero tengo miedo de que me olvides.”

— Ally Condie

“And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.”

— Ally Condie

“She bends down to kiss him, and his trembling hand reaches for hers, but he can't move it far enough yet. So I lift…

— Ally Condie

“El militar sonríe. La Sociedad no es humana, pero las personas que trabajan para ella a veces lo son.”

— Ally Condie

“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "what do you think she'd be life?" "You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You." We…

— Ally Condie

“I wanted Cassia to choose me. In some ways, our being Matched is the biggest strike against me. How was she supposed to love…

— Ally Condie