Ally Condie Quotes

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Why are some things easier to write than say?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really have to be here...."
The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with baited breath, the boy beside Kat whispered,
"I could go make some calls... check on some things..."
"Play some blackjack?"
"Well, when in Rome..."
"Rome is tomorrow, babe," Kat reminded him.
He nodded. "Right.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“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 life the angels in the stories and I will find him.”
― 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

“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "what do you think she'd be life?" "You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You." We do not kiss. We do nothing bu hold on and breather, but still I know. I cannot go gently now.”
― 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, Matched

“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, Atlantia

“I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“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, Atlantia

“She bends down to kiss him, and his trembling hand reaches for hers, but he can't move it far enough yet. So I lift up his hand and put it on hers. I help him to reach her. For a moment, I'm part of it all. Then I'm just apart.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I never needed the Society to Match me.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“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, Atlantia

“Sé que querías decirme que siempre me recordarías, Cassia, pero tengo miedo de que me olvides.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Escalo en la oscuridad por ti. ¿Me esperas tú en las estrellas?”
― 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, Reached

“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, Crossed

“Los militares y funcionarios quieren que nos dé miedo éste río, todos los ríos, para que nunca nos atrevamos a beber de ellos ni a cruzarlos.”
― Ally Condie

“El militar sonríe. La Sociedad no es humana, pero las personas que trabajan para ella a veces lo son.”
― Ally Condie

“En cambio trazo una curva. Una ola. Como un mar, o un retal de seda verde que ondea el viento. Cric, cric. Ahora ésta roca, moldeada por otras fuerzas , el agua y el viento, está modificada por mí. Y eso me gusta. Yo siempre me transformo en lo que otras personas quieren. Con Cassia en la Loma: Sólo que entonces era yo mismo.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“In a story, you can turn to the front and being again and everyone lives once more.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“What are the gifts given to we who live Below?"
"Long life, health, strength, and happiness."
"What is the curse of those who live Above?"
"Short life, illness, weakness, and misery."
"Is this fair?"
"It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below."
"Then give thanks.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“I wanted Cassia to choose me. 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, Reached

“And out of nowhere, I think: So this is how it feels to stand at the edge of a canyon.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I wouldn't care how small the world became as long as I had Cassia at the center of mine.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“And in a way, perhaps that means I love Xander best of all.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Ahora comprendo cuánto valor hace falta para escoger la vida que queremos, sea cual sea.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I know that I’m not the only one doing these things, committing small acts of rebellion. There are people swimming against the current and shadows moving slowly in the deep. 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, Reached