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“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Once you want something, everything changes.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I love.
The most reckless thing of all.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“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, Matched

“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, Matched

“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, Reached

“No one should die alone.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“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, Matched

“So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I mean so many things: My heart will always fly his name. I won't go gentle. I'll find a way to soar like the angels in the stories and I will find him. And I know he understands as he looks straight at me, deep into my eyes. His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know. Tears well up but I blink them away. Because if there is one moment in my life that I want to see clearly, this is it.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“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, Matched

“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, Matched

“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“What is it about your voice that
makes me want to hear you speak?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I love you."
lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back.
It's time. I feel it, I know it. My eyes on him, his on me, and both of us breathing, watching, tired of of waiting. Ky close his eyes, but mine are still open. what will it feel like, his lips on mine? Like a secret told, a promise kept? Like that line in the poem-a shower of all my days- silvery rain falling all around me, where the lighting meets the earth?
The whistle blows below us and the moment breaks. We are safe.
For now.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I climb into the dark for you
Are you waiting in the stars for me?”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Love has different shades. Like the way I loved Cassia when I thought she'd never love me. The way I loved her on the Hill. The way I love her now that she came into the canyon for me. It's different. Deeper. I thought I loved her and wanted her before, but as we walk through the canyon together I realize this could be more than a new shade. A whole new color.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“It's all right to wonder.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“There's a reason they didn't keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight.”
― Ally Condie, Matched