“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
“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
“Xander is my Match and my oldest friend and one of the best people I know. When I kissed him, it was… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Lying in bed, my body and soul bruised and tired, I realize that the Officials are right. Once you want something, everything… — 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
“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
“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives(Cassia 'Reached')” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It is almost uncomfortable, this awareness of him. Each pause, each movement when he places a piece on the black and gray… — 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
