“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
“This is a cruel thing to do because when someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt you. It's… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Right then I knew we were feeling the same thing. I knew we loved Cassia, if not exactly the same way, then… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“at first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deep it smelled like sage, my favorite smell I went… — 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
“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?" "You," he says, almost before I've finished.… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Ky is heavy in my mind, deep in my heart, his palms warm on my empty hands. I have to try to… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they… — 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
“What did you think about?" I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once… — 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
