Home > Author > Ally Condie
41 " It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware. "
― Ally Condie , Crossed (Matched, #2)
42 " This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal. "
― Ally Condie , Matched (Matched, #1)
43 " No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been. "
― Ally Condie , Reached (Matched, #3)
44 " Good-bye,” I say to Grandfather, and to my father, and I hold the tube in the river and pause a moment. We hold the choices of our fathers and mothers in our hands and when we cling on or let them slip between our fingers, those choices become our own. "
45 " Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?” I ask.“We thought he might,” my mother says.“Why didn’t you stop him?”“We didn’t want to take away your choices,” my mother says.“But Grandfather never did tell me about the Rising,” I say.“I think he wanted you to find your own way,” my mother says. She smiles. “In that way, he was a true rebel. I think that’s why he chose that argument with your father as his favorite memory. Though he was upset when the fight happened, later he came to see that your father was strong in choosing his own path, and he admired him for it. "
46 " They were too much to carryso i left them behindfor a new life, in a new placebut no one forgot who i wasi didn'tand neither did the people who watchthey watched for yearsthey watch now "
47 " It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel. "
48 " Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? "
49 " It was a little thing, a baby tree, but still it tangled with things around it and required care to move. And when she pulled it out, it's roots still clung to Earth from it's old home. "
50 " The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are. "
51 " ...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us. "
― Ally Condie
52 " For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning. "
53 " I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it. "
54 " They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place. "
55 " I don't know what happens after we die. It doesn't seem to me like there can be much past this. But I suppose I can conceive that what we make and do can last beyond us. Maybe in a different place, on another plane. "
56 " He watches the sun out of the world and the stars into it and sometimes I wonder if he watches the sun come up again. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment, even those that would otherwise seem dull and unremarkable? "
57 " So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him is so strong I can hardly stand it... I think of him, I think of him, I think of him. "
58 " I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content. "
― Ally Condie , Atlantia
59 " Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him? "
60 " The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong. "