“Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back.” — 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
“close your eyes,"I say to Ky, and i bend down, his breathing above me while he waits. "There", I say and he… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose? — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“But my father goes on."And I've noticed other things,too.I think you're in love with Ky Markham.I think you want to find him,wherever… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“But loving let's you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When we fall in love the first time, we don’t know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we… — 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
“Come with me outside," he says, and I feel his hand on mine. "We won't go far." I can't see him; but… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When you see the one you love as pieces, as whys-why he walks like this, why he closes his eyes like that-you… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Ky watches me with that look in his eyes, the one sad and full of love at the same time, the one… — 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
“So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I… — 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
“His tone is mild, but there is, and always has been, something a little deeper and more resonant about his voice. It… — 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
“But I didn't see it. I believed him unchanging, a stone in all good senses of the word, solid, dependable, something and… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Everyone has something of beauty about them. In the beginning for me, it was Ky's eyes I noticed, and I love the,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I love you." Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When we fall in love the first time, we don't know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I love you." lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“ I know you love me. I love you, I always will, but things can't hold like this. They have to break.… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When I was small my mother tried to teach me the colors. "Blue," she said, pointing to the sky. And "blue" again,… — 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
“It's not all gone. She loved someone before and so did I. The Society and the Rising and the world are all… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“...but suddenly I hope Xander's right. I hope part of me fell in love with Ky before anyone else told me to.” — 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
“She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Don't wait for me anymore. I hope for love for you. I hope for this more than anything else, maybe even more… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“When we fall in love the first time, we don’t know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we… — 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
