“Then she asked me the color of my eyes. In that moment I realized that loving each other felt more dangerous-more like… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“She was in the right place at the right time last night, safe inside when the tree came down. One thing different—an… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have. — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“You told me once," I say to Ky, holding up the bud for him to see and then pressing it into his… — 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
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.… — 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
“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
“think of him risking everything each time he slips one napkin into his pocket. All these years he’s been so careful, but… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“The two of us hold each other's gazes for a long, unembarrassed moment and I feel that Ky knows. I'm not sure… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Neither of us moves for a moment, locked instead in each other's eyes and in the branches of this Hill we might… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Would I be an Archivist then?” I asked. “No,” she said. “You’d be a trader.” For a moment, I thought she said… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Watching Ky wake is better than a sunrise. One moment, he's still and down deep, and the next moment I can see… — 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
“This summer I’d been spending a lot of time on other people’s deaths. Harley’s. Lisette’s. But somehow it had helped me feel… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures" -Cassia 'Matched” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It’s not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain. (Xander)” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I watched Leo and I realized that he also knew how it felt to be different. To want big things in a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Good-byes are like this. You can’t always mark them well at the moment of separation—no matter how deep they cut. (Ky Markham)” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking… — 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
