Ally Condie Quotes

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

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

I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. 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

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

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

~ Ally Condie

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

~ 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