Matched Ally Condie Quotes & Sayings

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? — Ally Condie

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

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives(Cassia 'Reached') — Ally Condie

Lying in bed, my body and soul bruised and tired, I realize that the Officials are right. Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more. I want to pick my work position. Marry who I choose. Eat pie for breakfast and run down a real street instead of on a tracker. Go fast when I want and slow when I want. Decide which poems I want to read and what words I want to write. There is so much that I want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia. — Ally Condie

The way the two of them look at each other is like touching. — Ally Condie

Ever minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs -Cassia, 'Matched — Ally Condie

So many times in my life I've felt as though looking at Em is like seeing another variation of myself, but I don't feel that way now. Too much has changed recently. Still, Em is my best girl friend. Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
-Cassia, from the novel Matched. — Ally Condie

It was a little thing, a baby tree, but still it tangled with things around it and required care to move. And when she pulled it out, it's roots still clung to Earth from it's old home. — Ally Condie

When it rains, I remember — Ally Condie

Why are some things easier to write than say? — Ally Condie

There's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge doesn't fail us. -The Society/Cassia, 'Matched — 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

If you've always known how to look at someone, it's strange when that directive changes -Cassia, 'Matched — Ally Condie

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all. — Ally Condie

And out of nowhere, I think: So this is how it feels to stand at the edge of a canyon. — 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

The two of us hold each other's gazes for a long, unembarrassed moment and I feel that Ky knows. I'm not sure what he knows - whether he knows me, or just something about me. — Ally Condie

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

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

Neither of us moves for a moment, locked instead in each other's eyes and in the branches of this Hill we might never finish climbing. — Ally Condie