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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. -- Ally Condie
This how it always feels to be with her - a mixture of amusement and admiration and exasperation. -- Ally Condie
I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.' -- Ally Condie
I know you meant that you would always remember me, Cassia, but I'm afraid you might forget. -- Ally Condie
She is not the pilot. I know it now. She reminds me of my Official back in Oria. They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability. -- Ally Condie
Everyday the sun rolls by
Across the sky and through night's door
Every night the stars light high
Above the Earth and shine once more
Any day her boat might fly
Across the waves and to the shore -- Ally Condie
I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be. -- Ally Condie
I wanted his hands at my back and his lips speaking poems on mine and our journey to each other to be completed, the miles between us consumed and all distance closed. -- Ally Condie
I think how this is always the way he is, giving me something even when most would think there was nothing left to do but let go -- Ally Condie
How is it that these two boys who are so different are connected in such unexpected, deep ways? Maybe we all are, I think, and we don't know how to see it anymore. -- Ally Condie
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs. -- Ally Condie
Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can't fight your way out of as easily. -- Ally Condie
When you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist. -- Ally Condie
For what is the point of
having something lovely if you never share it?
It would be like having a poem, a beautiful wild poem that no
one else has, and burning it. -- Ally Condie
Do not pretend one place is like another or look for similarities. Only look for what is. -- Ally Condie
What I did see was that Leo's face lit up and then the lady's face lit up and his smile seemed as big as the world. Like he loved the world. Like he had no idea what it could do. -- Ally Condie
I've burned words and buried them, I thought, but I haven't tried the water yet. -- Ally Condie
What is it about your voice that
makes me want to hear you speak? -- Ally Condie
That word, calm, sounds impossibly beautiful, gloriously uncomplicated. A water-smooth word, a word that can take the edge away from fear, gloss it over, make it shiny. Calm. Gentle. -- Ally Condie
There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached. -- Ally Condie
Newrose, Oldrose, Quean Anne's lace.
Water, river, stone and sun
Wind over hill, under tree.
Past the border none can see.
Climbing into dark for you,
Will you climb in stars for me?
P.124 -- Ally Condie
I love you," she whispers.
"I love you," I say back.
I choose her again and again and again until the pilot interrupts us and it's time to fly. -- Ally Condie
And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky. -- Ally Condie
I will be strong enough to go without the tablet. But there are other things I'm not strong enough to go without, and I intend to fight for them. (Cassia Reyes) -- Ally Condie
And even if you could use the sample to create someone a lot like the original person, it would never be the person themselves. You can't bring anyone back, ever. -- Ally Condie
Of course, one person can be the world. -- Ally Condie
But then I found out that the poem she truly loved was the other one. She chose her own way. And I fell even more deeply in love with her. -- Ally Condie
At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks ... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself. I did not expect to love his words. I did no expect to find myself in the. -- Ally Condie
Ky wants someone to see him. He wants me to see him. -- Ally Condie
If you don't walk away from someones silence, they just might speak. p.120 -- Ally Condie
I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through. -- Ally Condie
And when you're lucky, like my family always has been, it's your responsibility to do the right thing. -- Ally Condie
His tone is mild, but there is, and always has been, something a little deeper and more resonant about his voice. It has a slightly different timbre than more voices. Its the kind of thing you forget until you hear it again and remember. Oh yes, His voice has music. -- Ally Condie
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you. -- Ally Condie
I remember what Anna called the three of us.
The Pilot. The Poet. The Physic.
They are in all of us. I believe this. They every person might have a way to fly, a line of poetry to put down for others to see, a hand to heal. -- Ally Condie
Physic himself must fade.
All things to end are made;
The plague full swift goes by.
I am sick, I must die
P.98 -- Ally Condie
If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you.
I like lost. -- Ally Condie
They were too much to carry
so i left them behind
for a new life, in a new place
but no one forgot who i was
i didn't
and neither did the people who watch
they watched for years
they watch now -- Ally Condie
I could write stories; I could hide from the world and make my own instead of trying to change it or live in it. I could make paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real. -- Ally Condie
He stops just close enough for me to see the blue of his eyes and forget the red on my hands and the green I wish I wore. -- Ally Condie
But you came into the Carving to save yourself and get back to the girl you're in love with. That's all. -- Ally Condie
Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones. -- Ally Condie
He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird. -- Ally Condie
And out of nowhere, I think: So this is how it feels to stand at the edge of a canyon. -- Ally Condie
I'm standing in a river. It's blue. Dark blue. Reflecting the color of the evening sky. -- Ally Condie
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? -- Ally Condie
Maybe only parts of our stories can keep us safe. The whole can feel like too much to bear. -- Ally Condie
He said he thought it happened fast, both for my dad and Ben and for the drunk driver who hit them, but for the rest of the questions he said, We just don't know.
We just don't know.
Some things are gone for good. You can't get them back. You can't know what happened. Ever. -- Ally Condie
Something has gone crooked here; night is coming. Am I drawing close to the end? It almost feels like it - that there can't be much farther to go, having come so far already - and yet nothing feels finished. -- Ally Condie
I close my eyes as his lips touch warm on my cheek. I think of the cottonwood seeds brushing against me that day on the air train. Soft, light, full of promise. -- Ally Condie
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. Thank -- Ally Condie
In the forest, I thought I'd made the wrong choice. I thought she had the Tennyson poem because it was a Rising poem, and I'd missed my chance to be in the rebellion with her. -- Ally Condie
I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over. -- Ally Condie
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not. -- Ally Condie
Are you congratulating me on my life, or on my death? -- Ally Condie
Ky is heavy in my mind, deep in my heart, his palms warm on my empty hands. I have to try to find him. Loving him gave me wings and all my work has given me the strength to move them. -- Ally Condie
I couldn't find a way to fly to you so I walked every step in this stone. -- Ally Condie
He's never taught to dance, and yet he's guiding me.He dosen't notice because he's concentrating so hard on what he dosen't have
what he thinks he can't do -- Ally Condie
And then I got it. Leo wanted to go so badly because he wanted not only to be in the presence of greatness, but because he wanted to share something he thought was amazing with his dad. -- Ally Condie
Leo didn't laugh.
He also didn't cry. Which it looked for a minute like he might do. I knew that feeling. Hold your mouth tight, tell your heart not to hurt, tell your brain not to think about what might happen next. -- Ally Condie
Climbing into dark for you
Will you wait in stars for me? -- Ally Condie
Suddenly, I see the other side of choice. Of all of us having it. Sometimes we will choose wrong. -- Ally Condie
And even in my panic, I hear the music in his deep voice, the sounds of singing. I close my eyes, imagining my breath is his own, that he is with me -- Ally Condie
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that. -- Ally Condie
Come with me outside," he says, and I feel his hand on mine. "We won't go far." I can't see him; but I hear a complicated mix of emotion in his voice and feel it in the way he touches me. Love, concern, and something unusual, something bittersweet. -- Ally Condie
I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be. -- Ally Condie
I have never seen him run like this, fast, free, strong, wild. He looks so beautiful, his body moves so right. -- Ally Condie
Things aren't fair. It's our job to do what we can to change that. -- Ally Condie
My face is turned to a sky that I cannot see, one blue above the stone. -- Ally Condie
The snow melted before they could make a footprint in it. Their lives ended before they even knew what they could be. -- Ally Condie
I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different. -- Ally Condie
His uniform seems threadbare and tired, and so does he, as though he's coming apart along the edges. -- Ally Condie
A little surge of bitterness goes through me like someone's shot it right into my veins with a syringe. But I know how to get over the feeling: remember that it doesn't do any good. -- Ally Condie
You don't know me," she says. "Yes, I do," I say. -- Ally Condie
My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I want. She knows and even though she would not destroy a tissue sample or love someone who is not her Match, she still loves us, even though we have done those things. -- Ally Condie
She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you sing and speak of blooms and petals that come back after a long time of being winter-still, you don't have to think about things that don't. -- Ally Condie
Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say. -- Ally Condie
The two desires struggle within me: the desire to be safe, and the desire to know. I cannot tell which one will win. -- Ally Condie
At first, I thought it was having the picture that made it special, but it's not even that. It's looking at something without being watched, without being told how to see. That's what the picture has given us. -- Ally Condie
I will try to forget that Ky said "home" when he looked into my eyes. -- Ally Condie
I believe in a new beginning. And so do many others out there - those writing on scraps to hang in the Gallery, those who continue to work hard to take care of the sick, those who dare to believe that we can all be the pilots of something new and better. -- Ally Condie
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write. -- Ally Condie
Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it's like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham) -- Ally Condie
Only when I hold onto nothing can I be the best, only then can I be what they expect me to be. -- Ally Condie
That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes) -- Ally Condie
And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing. -- Ally Condie
I didn't point out that I'm part Chinese-American and so the odds that I would have been in England back in Shakespeare's time were highly unlikely. "And, -- Ally Condie
Because in the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how to let it go. -- Ally Condie
Even if he didn't live his story, enough of us have lives just like it. So it's true anyway. -- Ally Condie
So I have to wish for the end of the world as I know it?" Xander asks, another hint of his old laugh in his voice. "Not the end of the world. For the beginning of a better one, -- Ally Condie
Reaching and reached. Cassia -- Ally Condie
Away from the Society, from Xander, from my family, from the life I knew. Away from the boy who led us here, from the light that creeps across this land, turning the sky blue and the stone red, the light that could get us killed. -- Ally Condie
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
If I'm talking to patients who can't answer, why not talk to the port, too? (Xander Markham) -- Ally Condie
We do not kiss. We do nothing but hold on and breathe, but still I know. I cannot go gently now. Not even for the sake of my parents, my family.
Not even for Xander. -- Ally Condie
It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain. (Xander) -- Ally Condie
Don't wait for me anymore.
I hope for love for you.
I hope for this more than anything else, maybe even more than my own happiness.
And in a way, perhaps that means I love Xander best of all. -- Ally Condie
Because if you can't dream you can't pretend that he's still there -- Ally Condie
I wouldn't have seen the light if she hadn't pointed out, but once sje did, it became impossible to ignore. -- Ally Condie
I fly toward Ky and away from Xander and into what is Outer, different. -- Ally Condie
For a moment, I'm part of it all. Then I'm just apart -- Ally Condie
The way the two of them look at each other is like touching. -- Ally Condie
It's good to know that Xander's here. So that when I go down, she won't be alone.
"You walked through the Carving to find me," I tell Cassia softly. "I'm going to walk through this to reach you. -- Ally Condie
Then Xander whispers, Cassia ... if we could choose, would you ever have chosen me? -- Ally Condie
I should be with Ky in the infirmary. i should be with Xander in prinson. I should be sorting for a cure. can only try to do all three and hope these pieces of myself are enough to find something that can make me whole -- Ally Condie
Being with Ky, being with Xander -both things feel like standing in the light. Different types of light, but neither feels dark. -- Ally Condie
Right then I knew we were feeling the same thing. I knew we loved Cassia, if not exactly the same way, then the same amount. And the amount was: completely. -- Ally Condie
When we fall in love the first time, we don't know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we choose to love again. (Xander) -- Ally Condie
Xander, that's nothing but a glorified work project. They want some free labor and they're bribing us with ice cream. -- Ally Condie
What if they all left? What if everyone else flew to the Otherlands or went still and I was here alone? Would I keep going? I would. I can't seem to treat this life I have as anything but the only thing. -- Ally Condie
Can you eat all of that?" "Are you joking? Of course I can." Xander acts offended. -- Ally Condie
I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see. -- Ally Condie
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
The salt of his tears tastes like the sea and I don't see the shore. -- Ally Condie
Ky smiles then, a smile I've never seen before. It's the kind of daring, reckless smile that could make people follow him straight into a firing, a flood. -- Ally Condie
And I wonder how the Society ever caught her that day on the ocean. -- Ally Condie
I don't cut deep-I don't want to kill the tree. I carve her name carefully on the trunk, thinking, as I always do, of when I held her hand in mine to teach her to write. -- Ally Condie
I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. -- Ally Condie
That part was easy. Tearing up the roots will be the hard part. -- Ally Condie
And as the Society reminds us, there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge doesn't fail us. -- Ally Condie
There's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge doesn't fail us. -The Society/Cassia, 'Matched -- Ally Condie
I don't trust the Society, and I don't trust the rebelions, I don't choose either of them, I've seen what both can do. -- Ally Condie
All the reasons I lied run through my head: because I can't lose you, because I was jealous, because I don't trust anyone, because I can't even trust myself, because, because, because. -- Ally Condie
The only chance of success is to trust in your own power. -- Ally Condie
Inside me are the real things that give me strength - my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut. -- Ally Condie
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
The Society isn't human, but the people work for it sometimes are. -- Ally Condie
I feel disgust when I think of how we climb our little hills when the Officials say the word. How we hand over our most precious items at their bidding. How we never, ever fight. -- Ally Condie
Who am I to try to change things, to get greedy and want more? If our Society changes and things are different, who am I to tell the girl who would have enjoyed the safe protected life that now she has to have choice and danger because of me? -- Ally Condie
For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives(Cassia 'Reached') -- Ally Condie
Which goes to show that caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable. -- Ally Condie
Cassia.
Even far away, I know it's her by the way her dark hair tangles with the wind and how she stands on the red rocks of the Carving. She's more beautiful than snow.
Is this real?
She points to the sky. -- Ally Condie
Even far away, I know it's her by the way her dark hair tangles with the wind and how she stands on the red rocks of the Carving. She's more beautiful than snow. -- Ally Condie
You always have more to lose, until you die. -- Ally Condie
I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content. -- Ally Condie
I believe, sometimes in spite of myself, in grace and better things to come and a time when we will all be whole. -- Ally Condie
I look at our tree, at its leaves still reaching for the sun, still working to turn light into food. They don't know they are dead yet. -- Ally Condie
It's good to see you jealous once in a while." He smiles, sun in the woods. -- Ally Condie
There's a reason they didn't keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight. -- Ally Condie
I see a glint in her eye as she looks at me and it makes me smile. Hold our breath? she seems to say. Move the earth? We've been doing that all along. -- Ally Condie
Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions ... He learns by watching. -- Ally Condie
Under star-dark seas and skies of gold
Live those Above and those Below
They sing and weep, both high and deep
While over and under the ocean rolls -- Ally Condie
We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know. -- Ally Condie
There are many of them in the world, I think, good men and women with their frail deeds. Wondering what might have been, how things might have danced, if we had only dared to be bright. -- Ally Condie
I have to admit that there have been times when I wished something bad would happen to the people of the Boroughs in Oria. Like the time the Society took me away and no one but Cassia ran after me. Or when the people laughed during the showings because they didn't understand death. -- Ally Condie
The stars have come to the earth, and the ocean has turned over the ground; dark waves meet the sky. -- Ally Condie
I think of my second lost compass sinking to the bottom of the river, like the stone it was before Ky changed it. -- Ally Condie
We don't need to understand everything. -- Ally Condie
Some things are created to be together. -- Ally Condie
I climb up next to her and watch the river and all the things that float and swim along it - birds, debris from the mountains. -- Ally Condie
They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. They have perfected the art of giving us just enought freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog ... - Cassia -- Ally Condie
The Society likes to keep things from us, but the wind doesn't care what we know. It brings hints of what has happened as we slip farther into the canyon - the smell of smoke and a white substance that falls on us. White ash. I don't for one moment think that it's snow. -- Ally Condie
There is something extraordinary about the first time falling. -- Ally Condie
Sometimes it's faster and more efficient to destroy. -- Ally Condie
He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel. -- Ally Condie
It is so strange to take this journey together when there is such distance between us. -- Ally Condie
Perhaps this is what I learned in the canyons: What I am, what I'm not, what I'll give, and what I won't. -- Ally Condie
Ky watches me with that look in his eyes, the one sad and full of love at the same time, the one he gives me when he knows something I don't, something he thinks has been stolen from me. -- Ally Condie
The Society music plays around and over us, but our thoughts are our own. -- Ally Condie
The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong. -- Ally Condie
At first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deep it smelled like sage, my favorite smell I went up on the plateau to watch it come to see the gifts it always brought but this rain changed from blue to black and left nothing. -- Ally Condie
I could go above ground now and then to gather food and paper, and isn't that enough to live on? -- Ally Condie
I understood why Leo called the fountain Baby Niagara. Because once you see something big, you can't help seeing it in everything small. -- Ally Condie
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. -- Ally Condie
Would I be an Archivist then?" I asked. "No," she said. "You'd be a trader." For a moment, I thought she said traitor, which of course I was, to the Society. -- Ally Condie
We all want control of our own. You knew this. -- Ally Condie
I came up on the screen, too, Cassia," he says quietly. "But he was the one you chose to see. -- Ally Condie
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 him gone."
I understand. "Because if you can't dream you can't pretend that he's still here. -- Ally Condie
Tell me a little every day and I'll remember it for you. Then there will be two of us who know. -- Ally Condie
My fingers smell like soil and my lips taste like sugar and I'm so awake right now I wonder if I'll be able to sleep tonight. -- Ally Condie
In Ky's eyes is such complete love and hunger that it goes through me like the sharp, high note of a bird in the canyon, echoing all the way through my body. I am seen and known, if not yet touched. The -- Ally Condie
When I look over later, I see that Eli is crying, but it's not enough to drown in so I don't do anything yet. -- Ally Condie
I'm lying. I won't go with her to the Rising, no matter what. -- Ally Condie
Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, his eyes wide and deep like the oceans in other tales or like the sky in his own. -- Ally Condie
If I couldn't name it, would I even know what it is? Would I even feel it at all? -- Ally Condie
I believe in you," he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. "That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have. -- Ally Condie
Why care about a flat planet populated by flat people? Who cares about a place where there is no Ky? -- Ally Condie
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
I weave the papers through the branches, in a long loop. Up and down, my knees bending. My arms above my head, like the girls I saw once in a painting in a cave. There is a rhythm to this, a keeping of time. I wonder if I'm dancing. -- Ally Condie
Apparently I was predicted to finish second. My stop must not have been as long as I thought. -- Ally Condie
We are the ones who are alive. Here. With everything to lose -- Ally Condie
But loving let's you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. -- Ally Condie
If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely. -- Ally Condie
Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape. -- Ally Condie
Something beautiful. My hands are stained red -- Ally Condie
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 alive. Because they weren't my deaths. The ones that were my own were too hard to face. -- Ally Condie
We have things of value, but you could never find them because you don't even know how to look. -- Ally Condie
And then he says it, right there on the Hill, and of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all. 'I love you. -- Ally Condie
Later that night I realize that Ky did not give me any more of his story and I did not ask. Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and the part we write together sometimes feels like the only part that matters. -- Ally Condie
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
You can't always mark them well at the moment of separation - no matter how deep they cut. -- Ally Condie
I can't hep but smile. We are here together. In this wide, wild world, we've managed to meet again. I reach out my hand and trace my finger along the path I took to get him until my hand meets his on the map. -- Ally Condie
They're no rebellion. They're Society, with a different name, -- Ally Condie
Last summer we had a dad and a brother and then they were gone.
We did not see it coming. -- Ally Condie
I wanted someone to know that before I started a life pretending to be less than everyone around me. -- Ally Condie
The Society slides in everywhere, snakes in a crack, water dripping against a rock until even the stone has no choice but to hollow and change shape. -- Ally Condie
But if you were Matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
"You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You. -- Ally Condie
There is no place for someone like him in the Society, I think, for someone who can create. He can do so many things of incomparable value, things no one else can do, and the Society doesn't care about that at all. -- Ally Condie
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. -- Ally Condie
I can already feel some things slipping through my fingers like sand and water, like artifacts and poems, like everything you want to hold on to and can't. -- Ally Condie
Close your eyes," I say to Ky, and I bend down, his breathing above me while he waits. "There," I say, and he looks at what I've written. I love you. -- Ally Condie
No one can break as many rules as I have and not get caught somehow, sometime. -- Ally Condie
I run for her.
I run for them.
For me. -- Ally Condie
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go. -- Ally Condie
Because if she isn't angry with him, how can I be? -- Ally Condie
Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how. -- Ally Condie
And I realize that I can never stay in these hollowed-out places in the earth for long before I have to come up for air. -- Ally Condie
Angels?' 'You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven.' 'Do you think anyone believes in them anymore?' he asks. 'I don't know. No. Do you?' 'I believe in you.' he says. -- Ally Condie
So much of life is in the smallness of moments ... but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant -- Ally Condie
Cassia and I sit as near to each other as we can. She leans into me and I keep my arms around her. I don't fool myself that I hold her together- she does that on her own- but holding her keeps me from flying apart. -- Ally Condie
It's all right to wonder. -- Ally Condie
My heart will always fly his name. I won't go gentle. I'l find a way to soar like the angels in the stories and I will find him. -- Ally Condie
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. -- Ally Condie
If they feel something, they fight. If you were in a place with no pain, why would you want to come back? -- Ally Condie
In the Society, we don't call out beyond our own bodies, the walls of our rooms. When we scream it is only in the world of our own dreams, and I have never been sure who hears. -- Ally Condie
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. -- Ally Condie
Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True. -- Ally Condie
My
soul, the mythical part of humans that the angels cared
about. -- Ally Condie
Green tablet. Green space. Green eyes. Green girl. -- Ally Condie
I think of how many invisible injuries are possible. Ones scored on your heart, your brain, your bones. How do we all stand? I wonder. What is is that keeps us moving? -- Ally Condie
You don't have to know someone all the way to miss them. Or to feel bad when they're gone" -Leo -- Ally Condie
I didn't know all that was inside of him, either. I thought I did, but people run deep and complicated like rivers, hold their shape and are carved upon like stone. -- Ally Condie
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 first time feeling and telling. -- Ally Condie
Somewhere," I say out loud and hope she hears, "this water is nothing at all. It is lighter than air. -- Ally Condie
If you've always known how to look at someone, it's strange when that directive changes -Cassia, 'Matched -- Ally Condie
Some things will remain valuable no matter who is in charge -- Ally Condie
I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it. -- Ally Condie
But before I do,
I open the case and watch the spinning arrow. It settles on a point, but I still spin, wondering where to go. -- Ally Condie
We have things of value but you can never find them because you don't even know how to look. They -- Ally Condie
But I've already broken the glass; I've given the green away; I've made my choice. -- Ally Condie
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 he's gone. -- Ally Condie
This is one of the reasons I need Ky, I realize. Because when I am with him, I feel. -- Ally Condie
You're here, he says, breathing hard and hungry. Sweat and dirt cover his face, and he looks at me as though I'm the only thing he needed to see. -- Ally Condie
The two of us hold each other's gazes for a long, unembarrassed moment and I feel that Ky knows. I'm not sure what he knows - whether he knows me, or just something about me. -- Ally Condie
Luck is not a word the Society encourages. And it's not something we have much of out here. -- Ally Condie
Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? -- Ally Condie
Watching Ky wake is better than a sunrise. -- Ally Condie
I analyzed the viral genome taken from the patient with the circumferential rash," he says. "It reveals an additional copy of the neural-insertion envelope protein gene. Do you understand what I'm saying? -- Ally Condie
When things like this happen - when what was meant to help results in harm, when a salve brings pain instead of healing - it is clear how wrong even choices intended to be right can become. -- Ally Condie
Can you climb high enough to get above the clouds, look down on the rain from a place in the sun? -- Ally Condie
Trust your words -- Ally Condie
Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are - how impossible to reach. -- Ally Condie
I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks. -- Ally Condie
Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning. -- Ally Condie
He unknowingly throws me a lifeline with those words. I am not drowning in worry anymore. I am neck deep and it still washes over me in cold waves, but now I can breathe. -- Ally Condie
It might be hard to be new when everyone else belongs. -- Ally Condie
The darkness behind doesn't worry me; neither do the stars ahead. I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth so you always remember where you came from, how hard walking could be. -- Ally Condie
Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose? -- Ally Condie
Holding my hands out open wide. Not catching the drops or trying to hold them. I'm letting them leave their mark and then letting them go. -- Ally Condie
No one has the need to know anything about me. -- Ally Condie
The four of us sit together in the sea of blue, the train twisting and turning like a river running, and I know it's hard to fight against a current as strong as the Society. -- Ally Condie
I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are. -- Ally Condie
The best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you can always remember where you came from, how hard walking could sometimes be. -- Ally Condie
It could," Ky agrees. He's no longer smiling but his eyes are mischievous. -- Ally Condie
Cassia Reyes, the Society is pleased to present you with your Match. -- Ally Condie
I climb into the dark for you
Are you waiting in the stars for me? -- Ally Condie
Death," I say. " It's the one thing they haven't fully conquered. They want to know more about it. -- Ally Condie
In some ways, our being Matched is the biggest strike against me. How was she supposed to love me when the Society said she should? -- Ally Condie
Was there a stolen touch before he found himself again at the bottom of the hill with the stone to push? Did he smile to himself as he set, again, to rolling it? -- Ally Condie
I'm not sure if it's because of us or because of the Enemy. I wonder who they think is the bigger threat. -- Ally Condie
How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much? -- Ally Condie
I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys. -- Ally Condie
I wonder if death will always taste this good -- Ally Condie
You left me before you left Oria. -- Ally Condie
And I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live. -- Ally Condie
I love.
The most reckless thing of all. -- Ally Condie
No one can ever really come in, and when it's time to let them, we don't know how. -- Ally Condie
Why are some things easier to write than say? -- Ally Condie
I want so much: happiness, freedom, love. -- Ally Condie
I was born and raised in southern Utah. -- Ally Condie
In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make. -- Ally Condie
Which one is the true one, I don't ask, they don't tell. -- Ally Condie
It was brave of them to love again. It made me think I could do it too. -- Ally Condie
They say you should always teach a person's name first. That way, even if they never learn to write anything else, they'll always have something. -- Ally Condie
And whenever you want to do something and you're not an adult, people tell you to stop. Even when there's no real reason. -- Ally Condie
His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know. -- Ally Condie
His voice can be as cold or as warm as a stone, I realize. -- Ally Condie
The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. I -- Ally Condie
It was as though I saw for the first time that
life could branch into different paths, take different directions. -- Ally Condie
I see too many things. I always have. Words and pictures connect together in my mind in strange ways and I notice details wherever I am. -- Ally Condie
Maybe I'm making this up, but my portions seem to be smaller lately. I'm not sure why. The hiking and running on the tracker keep me fit. If anything, I should be getting more food, not less. It must be my imagination. -- Ally Condie
Neither of us moves for a moment, locked instead in each other's eyes and in the branches of this Hill we might never finish climbing. -- Ally Condie
Markham," I tell him. "Ky Markham." Because that's the name she knows me by. That's my real name now. -- Ally Condie
Do not go gentle into that good night. -- Ally Condie
When it rains, I remember -- Ally Condie
You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. (Ky Markham) -- Ally Condie
Other kids grew up telling stories about the Pilot," Caleb says. "But I grew up watching him fly. -- Ally Condie
It is strange that an absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn around, stunned, to see that the room is empty after all when before it had something. -- Ally Condie
Because either way, whichever life I build, has to be built on truth. -- Ally Condie
Oh yes. His voice has music. -- Ally Condie
I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from. -- Ally Condie
It's all right," he says. "But maybe - you could - " He looks into my eyes, deep, and I know what he wants. A kiss. -- Ally Condie
Something in her is still drowning a little from loss. -- Ally Condie
But we do find answers in beauty, more often then others. -- Ally Condie
Hope looks like a footprint, a half footprint where someone grew careless and stepped into soft mud that later hardened too thick to blow away in the evening and morning winds. -- Ally Condie
I wish that I did not have to tell him this lie, when he knows more of my truth than anyone else in the world. -- Ally Condie
So many beginnings. I tell myself that in a way it's good that I haven't found Ky yet, because I still don't know what to whisper to him when I see him, which words would be the very best ones to give. -- Ally Condie
All the studies show that the best age to die is eighty. It's long enough that we can have a complete life experience, but not so long that we feel useless. -- Ally Condie
No one knows I can do this," Ky says. "Now i have a secret of yours and you have one of mine. -- Ally Condie
Maybe songs only need to be sung once, recorded, and passed along. -- Ally Condie
Rainbows glimmered in the stream. Golden grass tangled along the bank where Vick ran and thought about the girl he loved. His boots left unnotched prints in the earth. -- Ally Condie
You can take it but it will always be mine -- Ally Condie
I have been the one looking up when something dark passed before the sun. And I have been the shadow itself, slipping along the place where earth and water meet the sky. -- Ally Condie
The Rising is not what you imagine, it's not Aberations and Anomalies and rebels and rougues running free. It's a structure. A system. -- Ally Condie
What do you think she would say about my Match?" I ask him. "About what happened today?" He's quiet, and I wait. "I think she would ask you if you wondered. -- Ally Condie
I couldn't tell anyone.
I never, ever wanted Ben to be dead.
But sometimes I wanted him gone.
And then he was. -- Ally Condie
Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard. -- Ally Condie
Things here are so different. Poisoned rivers, softened stone. You never know exactly what you're getting into. What will hold and what will give way -- Ally Condie
At the same time I hear a word so soft and quiet I wonder if he said it up on the hill and the wind has just now carried it down to me. -- Ally Condie
We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have. -- Ally Condie
But I feel separated now, as though a clear thin wall rises up distinctly between myself and those staring at me. We can see each other, but we can't cross over. -- Ally Condie
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens. -- Ally Condie
Thoughts from the boy who is an Aberration. -- Ally Condie
He has traveled through canyons of his own and come through changed. And -- Ally Condie
But who would read them?" I ask, laughing. "I would," he says. -- Ally Condie
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. -- Ally Condie
In the absence of real thunder, he's making his own. -- Ally Condie
Would it be worth it to have the mutation if I knew she loved me? I wonder. If I could trade places with him right now, would I do it? -- Ally Condie
There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief. -- Ally Condie
There's got to be some light in a corner somewhere. -- Ally Condie
I stand there, thinking about this. How much has changed. How little we knew. -- Ally Condie
Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible. -- Ally Condie
Much as I love looking at the stars, I never learned to guide by them. I mark my course by people. -- Ally Condie
It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance. -- Ally Condie
I don't need the Rising to tell me how to fight the Society. -- Ally Condie
In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. -- Ally Condie
I think I'm looking at one of the air ships the farmers tried to take down. -- Ally Condie
Two little dark figures, looking up. Are they looking at me? Is is him? This far away there's only one way to know. I point to the sky. -- Ally Condie
Then, quick, he flips the fish out onto the bank. It flops and gasps for air, its body slick.
We all watch the fish die. -- Ally Condie
Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have -- Ally Condie
We're ready to leave you all behind and go someplace you haven't touched." "Why -- Ally Condie
Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back. -- Ally Condie
My father was never the Pilot, but he was one of the people standing in line. -- Ally Condie
What would Grandfather think of this jump I'm taking? Would this be one time he would tell me to hang on to the edge with all my might? Would he say to cling to the side of the board until my fingers became bloody and scraped? Or would he say that it was all right to let go? -- Ally Condie
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
I'm going to do. I want to look at the microcard without my parents or Bram glancing -- Ally Condie
Rain falls in both pictures, but in the first one his mouth is open, his head tipped back, he drinks from the sky. In the second one his head is down, his eyes panicked, the rain thick around him, streaming off him like a waterfall. There is too much rain here. He could drown. -- Ally Condie
It's never really lost to you as long as you remember it. -- Ally Condie
You walked through the Carving to find me," I tell Cassia softly. "I'm going to walk through this to reach you." Cassia -- Ally Condie
It's a strange feeling, I thought, like my bones are walking along with me on the outside of my body. -- Ally Condie
I wonder what would have happened to her if I had died. Would she have cried for me, or would she have gone through my things, taken what she needed, and moved on? -- Ally Condie
It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel. -- Ally Condie
Burning the napkin with that part of his story on it is one of the hardest things I've ever done. Like the books out at the Restoration site, like Grandfather's poem, Ky's story, bit by bit, is turning into ash and nothing. -- Ally Condie
The pictures were beautiful both because of the way they looked while they existed and because they could never last. -- Ally Condie
And of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all. -- Ally Condie
We are not lost mermaids with seaweed hair and coins for eyes, but human girls, alive and found.
We are sisters, and we did not drown. -- Ally Condie
I am protected, shaped and built by what is outside, what they made of me, but also by what is inside, what I made of myself. -- Ally Condie
The first one, the one from the greenspace near the game center, the one who told me everything would be all right and nothing would change with my Match. Did she lie to me? Or did she tell the truth, and my choices made a lie of her words? -- Ally Condie
We are here, together. In this wide, wild world, we've managed to meet again. -- Ally Condie
And that is how it's always been with Ky, I realize now, looking back. We have always seen him swimming along the surface. Only that first day did we see him dive deep. -- Ally Condie
I don't know where I find the air and I keep getting the words wrong: From out our bourne of death and space the flood will wash me far- but it doesn't even matter. I never knew that words might not matter. -- Ally Condie
The word is yes. -- Ally Condie
While we stood kissing that night under the cold burning stars and held on tight, it did not feel that we were stealing time. It felt that it was all our own. -- Ally Condie
Virologist very long to respond. "What do we have?" he asks, his -- Ally Condie
Once you want something, everything changes. -- Ally Condie
People fall in love', I say, my voice hoarse. 'It happens. -- Ally Condie
His body belongs to him more than most people's do, and I ache at the thought that it might have to stop, be still. You -- Ally Condie
I see his eyes, bright with life adnfire, and I know he won't stop fighting. Even if it's the kind of quiet fight on the inside that you can't always see. And I won't stop fighting either. -- Ally Condie
Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it -- Ally Condie
in that report. She -- Ally Condie
You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all. -- Ally Condie
All these years he's been so careful, but now he's willing to take a chance. Because he's found someone who wants to know. Someone he wants to tell. -- Ally Condie
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? -- Ally Condie
I couldn't sleep all night,
worrying that I'd gotten you in trouble. I care about you. -- Ally Condie
How much do we have to show the people we love? What pieces of my life do I have to lay bare, carve out, and put before her? Is it enough that I have pointed the way to who I am? -- Ally Condie
Death will not take the people I love. Our journey will end differently. -- Ally Condie
I'm not Rising or Society -- Ally Condie
The Society made it clear: we're not to injure each other. That's for the Enemy to do. -- Ally Condie
I did not reach Thee But my feet slip nearer every day Three Rivers and a Hill to cross One Desert and a Sea I shall not count the journey one When I am telling thee. -- Ally Condie
What are they now? he asks. He widens his eyes a little, leans closer, lets me look as long and as deep as I want. -- Ally Condie
She's not the kind of person to watch someone else build a boat and set sail without her. -- Ally Condie
Only the sun is in the sky. Nothing flies. There are no angels here. -- Ally Condie
I know nothing about and how else the Society might have altered maps over the years. There must be a world past the Enemy territory. How much has been erased and taken away? -- Ally Condie
Newrose, oldrose, Queen Anne's lace. Water, river, stone, and sun. Wind over hill, under tree. Past the border none can see. Climbing into dark for you Will you wait in stars for me? I -- Ally Condie
Its okay to wonder. -- Ally Condie
Then she asked me the color of my eyes. In that moment I realized that loving each other felt more dangerous-more like a rebellion-than anything else ever could. -- Ally Condie
It doesn't have many roots,' I say. 'Not yet,' she says. 'That will come. -- Ally Condie
To see how Grandfather handles leaving, and to
see how we manage being left. -- Ally Condie
Thank you, he answers. There is a light in his eyes and I am the one who put it there. -- Ally Condie
I wouldn't care how small the world became as long as i had Cassia at the center of mine -- Ally Condie
You are strong enough to go without. -- Ally Condie
I marked a map for every death
For every ache and blow
My world was all a page of black
With nothing left but snow. -- Ally Condie
I can't help being happy. I'm alive. -- Ally Condie
Who knows why that man planted those fields? Perhaps he knew we'd need the flowers for a cure. Maybe he just thought they were beautiful, like my mother did. But we do find answers in beauty, more often than not. -- Ally Condie
You can't kill anything that's always moving and changing -- Ally Condie
Now Death usurps my premium -- Ally Condie
It could have been different," I say, almost under my breath. If I'd kissed Indie again after she kissed me. If I hadn't known Cassia before I met Indie.
"But it's not," Indie says, and she's right. -- Ally Condie
Then, the question I asked myself was: Do I look pretty? Now the question I ask is: Do I look strong? -- Ally Condie
For some reason, the act of writing them down makes me remember. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right one. -- Ally Condie
I shouldn't have been surprised by the way at the way she fell in love with Ky because it's the way I wanted her to fall in love with me: completely. -- Ally Condie
She's trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted. -- Ally Condie
For a moment everything is as quiet as it can be in a ship in the mountains. The wind moves in the trees outside, and under that is the breathing of those of us who are not still, not yet. "We're -- Ally Condie
When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves. -- Ally Condie
Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely. -- Ally Condie
In my mind, a stream ran and snow fell, and we said good-bye on the bank, and I took to the water and he ran alongside it, bringing these words the length of the river. -- Ally Condie
Loss is a feeling you can't fight your way out of easily. -- Ally Condie
If only we still knew how to write instead of just type things into our scribes. Then I could write them down again someday. Then I might be able to have them when I am old. -- Ally Condie
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own. -- Ally Condie
Ever minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs -Cassia, 'Matched -- Ally Condie
I'm not anyone. I'm just one of the people who happened to fall in the majority. All my life, the odds have been on my side. -- Ally Condie
It's hard to know which ways to be strong. -- Ally Condie
I decided that it was the thoughts in your own mind that mattered more than anything else. -- Ally Condie
He still thinks that knowing why might help. He doesn't yet know that the reason will never be good enough. -- Ally Condie
Because I can see in his eyes that he wants that kiss as much as I do. -- Ally Condie
And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. -- Ally Condie
Cassia doesn't like to sort people. I'm all too good at it and I worry I'll grow to like it too much.It's a talent.[...]And all it takes is a misstep or two for that talent to become a liability instead of an asset. -- Ally Condie
It's as though she holds to the walls of a canyon. If I move wrong she will look over her shoulder, let go, and take her chances with the fall. -- Ally Condie
Things happen whether you deserve them or not -- Ally Condie
He says my name, over and over as we move together, until I'm caught in a strange place between weak and strong, between dizziness and clarity and need and satiety and give and take and ... "Ky," I say back. -- Ally Condie
They have perfected the art of giving us just enough freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog. -- Ally Condie
You're smiling," Indie says.
"I know." I say. -- Ally Condie
With Cassia on the Hill - only then was I truly myself. -- Ally Condie
You can't let love make you afraid. -- Ally Condie
Earth is a giant stone, rolling and turning through the sky. And we're all on it together. I do believe that. -- Ally Condie
I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is -- Ally Condie
If I could find one, I would cover the bark with her name the way I used to cover her hand with mine on the Hill. -- Ally Condie
Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them? -- Ally Condie
It's not their business unless the Society says that it is. -- Ally Condie
It's so huge," I say to him, and he nods. -- Ally Condie
Teens find out a lot from other teens. -- Ally Condie
The evening air holds the bittersweet tang of what might have been, -- Ally Condie
Sometimes paper is just paper, words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to remember that. -- Ally Condie
I'm drawn to him and tied to him with the cords of a thousand different memories. -- Ally Condie
I never needed the Society," she says, "to Match me."
(-Lei) -- Ally Condie
How we
never, ever fight. -- Ally Condie
But I also know we can't plan on anyone else rescuing us. We have to do it ourselves. -- Ally Condie
Shallow roots. Sandy soil. The bark is gray and rough. The leaves are long gone but her name still looks beautiful to me. -- Ally Condie
Do not go gentle -- Ally Condie
Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he just lost. He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time. -- Ally Condie
Back then, I was home in Oria, trying to make Cassia fall in love with me. -- Ally Condie
I can't tell him that I didn't see him until they told me to look. -- Ally Condie
Pictures painted with water. Poetry breathed between kisses. Too beautiful to last. -- Ally Condie
Knowledge doesn't fail us. -- Ally Condie
[..] I know he won't stop fighting. Even if it's the kind of quiet fight on the inside that you can't always see. -- Ally Condie
I know the Otherlands are to her what Ky is to me, the best, most beautiful place, not fully realized, but full of promise. -- Ally Condie
He didn't have any words for me. Why should I give him any of mine? -- Ally Condie
You wouldn't believe how fast people can forget about someone. -- Ally Condie
I like the places where one part meets another, I think, eyes to cheek, wrist to hands. -- Ally Condie
I imagine giving someone such a gift and then having it returned. Parents are always giving things that are not taken. -- Ally Condie
But i must count this journey,
all
For it has brought me Thee. -- Ally Condie
The dead don't see but I do. -- Ally Condie
But then I feel it. Even hidden away in the dark, I can tell that it is there. Some small part of me is always, always free. -- Ally Condie
It's raining. So I should remember.
Something.
Someone.
The water is gathering inside of me.
Who do I remember?
I don't know.
I'm drowning.
I remember to breathe.
I remember to breathe.
I remember.
I. -- Ally Condie
My mother painted with water," he says. "And my father played with fire. -- Ally Condie
It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words from the sky.
I'm sorry, Grandfather. -- Ally Condie
I have always loved the way she says my name. -- Ally Condie
These branches will be my bones, I thought, and the paper will be my heart and skin, the places that feel everything. -- Ally Condie
For a moment on the top of that bare pain of rock I wonder if I should run behind or ahead-which is the best way to protect her-and then I find us just running side by side. -- Ally Condie
If only it were real. -- Ally Condie
What is the point of having something lovely if you never share it? -- Ally Condie
It gets harder and steeper, but not impossible. -- Ally Condie
Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night? -- Ally Condie
The spring breeze cuts around me, tearing the last of the old leaves from the branches of the bushes. It pulls on my clothes, and I imagine that if it took them from me, the last of my papers would soar out into the world, and I know it is time for me to stop holding certain things so close. -- Ally Condie
Can I trust this boy who writes in the earth? -- Ally Condie
But he is as we all are: light as air, transient as wisps of cloud before the sun, beautiful and fleeting, and if I ever did truly have hold of him, that has ended now. -- Ally Condie
And then, when I wouldn't give in, he wouldn't talk to me. I still wouldn't play. -- Ally Condie
I wonder if there have been other errors. -- Ally Condie
I never needed the Society to Match me. -- Ally Condie
-at least in the collective mind of the Society. -- Ally Condie
She knew too much and she admitted it in that report. -- Ally Condie
And I think, If i dared to ever open that paper, this would be the place. -- Ally Condie
Time, Vick said, "is what we don't have. -- Ally Condie
I help him to reach her. For a moment, I am a part of it all. Then I'm just apart. -- Ally Condie
I wouldn't take that tablet Cassia. Not for a report. And perhaps not ever. You are strong enough to go without it. -- Ally Condie
Words mean what you want them to mean. -- Ally Condie
They did. And if any came, we cut them down. -- Ally Condie
You have intuition, too. The Society says it doesn't really exist, but it does. -- Ally Condie
No."
"Why?"
"No one needs to know," I say.
"To know what?How long you've lasted?" Vick asks.
"To know anything about me," I say. -- Ally Condie
Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them? -- Ally Condie
I stare up into the dark with an ache in my chest that makes it hard to breathe. But not hard to think. -- Ally Condie
This is the difference between us. I live to sort, he knows how to create. -- Ally Condie
I don't know why I didn't carry around pictures and poems all the time before I came here. -- Ally Condie
Branches and bushes and mud and sunlight on the top of a hill with a boy who knows more than he will say. -- Ally Condie
Some people set them on the white tablecloths in front of them, but most hold the boxes carefully, unwilling to let their futures out of their hands so soon after receiving them. -- Ally Condie
This is a cruel thing to do because when someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt you. It's why I give mine away in pieces, even to Cassia. -- Ally Condie
If a graveyard floods, nothing is lost that wasn't already gone. -- Ally Condie
When suddenly across the June a wind with fingers goes. -- Ally Condie
I was trying to find a way to you," Ky says. "I wanted to cross the plain and get back to the Society somehow. We took some things from the farmers' township for trade. -- Ally Condie
And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed. -- Ally Condie
Have to believe in something to survive. She's picked the Rising. I chose Cassia. -- Ally Condie
Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back -- Ally Condie
Hearing it, I wonder how I could have ever thought that the birdcall I heard earlier sounded anything like the Officer's whistle. -- Ally Condie
Ky's story, bit by bit, is turning to ash and nothing. Except. He remembers it, and now I do, too. -- Ally Condie
But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it's not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me. -- Ally Condie
We need you."
"I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore. -- Ally Condie
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. -- Ally Condie
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
People can be miracles. -- Ally Condie
There are some things you only tell a sister. And some things you only ask of a sister. -- Ally Condie
Not many people know how to make letters like this," he says. "Do you ever teach anyone?"
"Only once," I say. -- Ally Condie
For a moment, I'm a part of it all. Then I'm just apart. -- Ally Condie
You left me like he left you. -- Ally Condie
The poems and stories we shared with each other could mean what we wanted them to mean. We could choose our own path together. -- Ally Condie
Maybe you can choose someone, too." "I did, -- Ally Condie
I have been in the presence of a lot of greatness. And people I love who have loved me back. It might be the same thing. -- Ally Condie
Dreams don't smell or sound as strong as this. -- Ally Condie
If only it were real.' he says. -- Ally Condie
Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it. -- Ally Condie
Her voice is lonely and full of longing: for him. -- Ally Condie
I always carve myself into what others want me to be. -- Ally Condie
