“In a story, you can turn to the front and being again and everyone lives once more.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“i wouldn't care how small the world became as long as i had Cassia at the center of mine” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“He's never taught to dance, and yet he's guiding me.He dosen't notice because he's concentrating so hard on what he dosen't have--… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When thigs liek this happen-when what was meant to help results in harm, whenn salve brings pain instead of healing- it is… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I think how this is always the way he is, giving me something even when most would think there was nothing left… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Xander is my Match and my oldest friend and one of the best people I know. When I kissed him, it was… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“My mother holds Bram tightly. I draw i ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“But I didn't see it. I believed him unchanging, a stone in all good senses of the word, solid, dependable, something and… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Mountains, I realize. That's what the ocean is. Those waves are peaks. The stars are lights in houses and on streets. The… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It is almost uncomfortable, this awareness of him. Each pause, each movement when he places a piece on the black and gray… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“And I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I should be with Ky in the infirmary. i should be with Xander in prinson. I should be sorting for a cure.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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 so uncertain.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“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 Image
