Matched Cassia Quotes & Sayings

Tears spill down her cheeks. "I'm so pissed off at you right now that I can't see straight. I simultaneously love the fuck out of you while I hate your guts. I don't know if I want to slap your face or get naked with you."
"My vote would be for getting naked, but I don't think they'll allow that here in the airport. — Georgia Cates

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

Before the motorcar replaced the horse, and for some years after there were many illustrators who drew horses with the same authority with which they drew the human figure; now there are very few who can do that. Most modern illustraters fudge a horse the best they can and hope to get on by the technique. — Russell Hoban

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

Nah, Mike's gonna stop by. He had to work late and he works
with this really cute chick and I just know he ... ." Alycia folded her arms
on her chest and pouted. "She better be a blonde bimbo with a huge rack
and no personality if he's gonna cheat on me. — J.M. Colail

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

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write. — Regina Brett

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

It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell
about iTunes on Windows computers — Steve Jobs

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

To Beth>> Your meet-cute would have gone like this, "Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!" / "Sorry, I have a boyfriend." Also, I feel like I should point out that it was freezing rain. Freezing rain isn't cute. — Rainbow Rowell

People are constantly forced to choose between having freedom and having success and stability; freedom with suffering or happiness without freedom. The majority choose the latter. — Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

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

I scowled and stabbed begrudginly at the stack before scooping up a bite with my fork, but it toppled over and plopped into my lap. I groaned and banged my head on the counter.
Mom frowned, 'You have to be smarter than the pancakes, Ellie. — Courtney Allison Moulton

God sits enthroned, ready to listen, to help. — Margaret Feinberg

Writing is like giving birth to yourself. — Marty Rubin

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

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