“Two little dark figures, looking up. Are they looking at me? Is is him? This far away there's only one way to… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“If I could find one, I would cover the bark with her name the way I used to cover her hand with… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Good-byes are like this. You can’t always mark them well at the moment of separation—no matter how deep they cut. (Ky Markham)” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Everyday the sun rolls by Across the sky and through night's door Every night the stars light high Above the Earth and… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Cassia and I sit as near to each other as we can. She leans into me and I keep my arms around… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Love has different shades. Like the way I loved Cassia when I thought she'd never love me. The way I loved her… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“For a moment nothing happens. The figure stands still and I stand cold and alive and- He starts to run. I make… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Copy Share
“She’s trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted.” — Ally Condie Copy Share
