I never needed the Society to Match me.

“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

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

— 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

“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

“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

“I never needed the Society," she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)”

— Ally Condie

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

— Jacqueline Bisset

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

— Wallace Stegner

“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

“I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is”

— 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

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

— Ally Condie