Ally Condie

“Now Death usurps my premium”

— Ally Condie

“Its okay to wonder.”

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“The word is yes.”

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“When it rains, I remember”

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“It might be hard to be new when everyone else belongs.”

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“It gets harder and steeper, but not impossible.”

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“We don't need to understand everything.”

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“It's never really lost to you as long as you remember it.”

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“I don't worry about things I can't change.”

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Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

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“of course, your one of my best friends.”

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I love. The most reckless thing of all.

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“Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back.”

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“You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”

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“Even if Xander gets his vocation first, we’re still Matched,”

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“They’re no rebellion. They’re Society, with a different name,”

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“I could go above ground now and then to gather food and paper, and isn't that enough to live on?”

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

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“Markham," I tell him. "Ky Markham." Because that's the name she knows me by. That's my real name now.”

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“Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.”

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“She is not the pilot. I know it now. She reminds me of my Official back in Oria. They both have in…

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“Then, quick, he flips the fish out onto the bank. It flops and gasps for air, its body slick. We all watch…

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“I can't hep but smile. We are here together. In this wide, wild world, we've managed to meet again. I reach out…

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“He unknowingly throws me a lifeline with those words. I am not drowning in worry anymore. I am neck deep and it…

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“Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful…

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“Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he just…

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“Hope looks like a footprint, a half footprint where someone grew careless and stepped into soft mud that later hardened too thick…

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It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I…

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“They’ll leave you alone if you walk away,” I said. “You have to ignore them.” “You sound like my parents.” Leo sounded…

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“Ky gives me three gifts for my birthday. A poem, a kiss and the hopeless, beautiful belief that things might work. When…

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“We liked our grandparents. We liked our uncle and our aunt. They had known our dad and our brother Ben. They had…

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“But he knew I wouldn't do that. He knew I wouldn't ask Mom for anything I didn't really, really need. We both…

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If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow.…

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“I never named anything I've written before no reason to since it would all have the same title anyway -for you- but…

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“She cried before she slept. I reached out to touch the ends of her hair. She didn't notice. I didn't know what…

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“I watched Leo and I realized that he also knew how it felt to be different. To want big things in a…

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Some things are created to be together.

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“I never needed the Society to Match me.”

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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

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“Oh yes. His voice has music.”

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