Ally Condie
Writer
1971-11-02
Ally Condie is an American author of young adult and middle grade fiction. Her novel Matched was a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Quotes by Ally Condie
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Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.
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I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
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Reaching and reached. Cassia
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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.
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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.
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The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.
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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
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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.
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...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.
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Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt at peace. It was as though I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions.
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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.
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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.
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Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back
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at first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deepit smelled like sage, my favorite smellI went up on the plateau to watch it cometo see the gifts it always broughtbut this rain changed from blue to black and leftnothing.
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Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.
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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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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.
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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.
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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)
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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 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.
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