Ally Condie Quotes

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Choices Life Waiting Writing

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

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Life, Want, Might

Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.254, Penguin

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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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Letting Go, Let It Go, Ends

Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.282, Penguin

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Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

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Life, Giving, Minutes

Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.47, Penguin

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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.

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Friendship Memories, One Line Friendship

Ally Condie (2010). “Matched”, p.147, Penguin UK

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This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

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Honesty, Cutting, Balance

Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.214, Penguin

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I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.

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Hurt, Glasses, Break Out

Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.179, Penguin

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I'm falling in love. I am in love. And it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.

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I Love You, Falling In Love, Facts

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

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Life, Courage, Moving

Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.125, Penguin

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Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible

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Choices, Unlikely

Ally Condie (2011). “Crossed”, p.194, Penguin

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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

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Past, Waiting, Pieces

Ally Condie (2014). “Atlantia”, p.189, Penguin

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Some things are created to be together.

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Together

Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.132, Penguin

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If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.

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Together, Use, Bones

Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.180, Penguin UK

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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

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Want Something, Want, Things Change

Ally Condie (2010). “Matched”, p.202, Penguin UK

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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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Beautiful, Writing, Journey

Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.275, Penguin

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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

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World, Dystopia, Power To Change

"'Matched' Author Ally Condie's Guide To A Dystopian Holiday", www.mtv.com. December 2, 2011.

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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?

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Appreciate, Too Much, Overwhelmed

Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.111, Penguin

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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 lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?

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Break Up, Breakup, Memories

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

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Falling In Love, Stories, Persons

Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.122, Penguin

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It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

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Choices, Chance, One Thing

Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.147, Penguin

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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

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Pain, Remember, Forget

Ally Condie (2011). “Crossed”, p.142, Penguin

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Once you want something, everything changes.

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Want Something, Want, Things Change

"Matched". Book by Ally Condie, November 30, 2010.

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There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

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Fall, Ebb And Flow, Leaving

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Why are some things easier to write than say?

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Writing, Easier

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When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

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Fighting, Roots, People

"'Matched' Author Ally Condie Explains Why Dystopian Novels Rock", www.mtv.com. May 6, 2011.

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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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Strength, Wonder, Matched

Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.113, Penguin

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Born: November 2, 1971
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