Quotes by Ally Condie

About Ally Condie:

Allyson Braithwaite Condie is an American writer of young-adult fiction, primarily under the name Ally Condie. She wrote the Matched trilogy (2010–2012), a science fiction dystopia, whose first book, Matched, was a New York Times Best Seller.
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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.

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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 who...

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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.

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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

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The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.

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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.

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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

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The most reckless thing of all.

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Because in the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how to let it go.

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The rain turns lighter, turns to snow. And 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.

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If you love someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how can you do nothing at all? You might as well take their words out of the dirt and try to snatch them from the wind. Because once you love, it i...

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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

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I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is

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It's a pelvis thrust, not a pelvic wiggle.

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If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you. I like lost.

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Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to ...

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The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.

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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.

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Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.

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What did you think about?" I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won't do it again. And besides, I wasn't thinking about Xander either. "I thought about angels," I say. "Angels?" "You know. The ones in the old...

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Author Bio

  • NameAlly Condie
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist