Life Quotes by Ally Condie

“The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.”

— Ally Condie

“Life, Death, and Oblivion always at my fingertips”

— Ally Condie

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

— Ally Condie

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

— Ally Condie

“I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you.”

— Ally Condie

“We need you." "I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.”

— Ally Condie

“They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing.”

— Ally Condie

“Are you congratulating me on my life, or on my death?”

— Ally Condie

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

“I see his eyes, bright with life adnfire, and I know he won't stop fighting. Even if it's the kind of quiet…

— Ally Condie

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.” ― Ally Condie, Matched”

— Ally Condie

“And I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much…

— Ally Condie

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find…

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“They were too much to carry so I left them behind for a new life, in a new place but no one…

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“That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never…

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“we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”

— Ally Condie

“I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm…

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“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

“But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting…

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“Who am I to try to change things, to get greedy and want more? If our Society changes and things are different,…

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“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "what do you think she'd be life?" "You," he says, almost before I've finished.…

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“My dad used to say that life was like turning the pages in a book. "Oh, look," he'd say, pretending to flip…

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“All of the things that were shown in early studies to be good for longevity—happy marriages, healthy bodies—are ours to have. We…

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“My father has always broken the rules for those he loves, just as my mother has always kept them for the same…

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“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

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes a part of theirs.”

— Ally Condie

“Because either way, whichever life I build, has to be built on truth.”

— Ally Condie

“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

“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives(Cassia 'Reached')”

— Ally Condie

“It was as though I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions.”

— Ally Condie

There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

— Ally Condie

“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.”

— Ally Condie

“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

“Ever minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs" -Cassia, 'Matched”

— Ally Condie

“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

Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

— Ally Condie

“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

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

“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

“They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. They have perfected the art of giving us…

— Ally Condie