“Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be. — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Ever minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs" -Cassia, 'Matched” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "what do you think she'd be life?" "You," he says, almost before I've finished.… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes a part of theirs.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“They were too much to carry so I left them behind for a new life, in a new place but no one… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“They were too much to carry so i left them behind for a new life, in a new place but no one… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Because either way, whichever life I build, has to be built on truth.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Cassia. I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“So many times in my life I’ve felt as though looking at Em is like seeing another variation of myself, but I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“We need you." "I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“My dad used to say that life was like turning the pages in a book. "Oh, look," he'd say, pretending to flip… — 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
