Choose Quotes by Ally Condie

“But I also know we can’t plan on anyone else rescuing us. We have to do it ourselves.”

— Ally Condie

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“How we never, ever fight.”

— Ally Condie

“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

“Of course, one person can be the world.”

— Ally Condie

“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

“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

“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

“What is the point of having something lovely if you never share it?”

— Ally Condie

“She’s trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted.”

— Ally Condie