“In a story, you can turn to the front and being again and everyone lives once more.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“And out of nowhere, I think: So this is how it feels to stand at the edge of a canyon.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“If they feel something, they fight. If you were in a place with no pain, why would you want to come back?” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“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
“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 wanted Cassia to choose me. In some ways, our being Matched is the biggest strike against me. How was she supposed… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“She bends down to kiss him, and his trembling hand reaches for hers, but he can't move it far enough yet. So… — 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
“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
“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
