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• 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

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  Dream, Simple, Everyday Things

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.159, Penguin

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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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  Life, Night, Way

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.12, Penguin

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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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• Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

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  Spring, Real, Color

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.176, Penguin

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• I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.

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  Thinking, Hands, Remember Where You Came

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• And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

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  Thinking, Sky, Laughing

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• I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

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  Parent, Matter, Bigs

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.216, Penguin

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• I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

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  Life, Righteous

  Ally Condie (2014). “Atlantia”, p.31, Penguin

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• We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.

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  Trying

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• And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

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  Strange, Absence, Feels

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.224, Penguin

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• Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?

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  Thinking, Ifs

  Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.132, Penguin

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• So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

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  Life, People, Needs

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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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  Heart, Hands, Waiting

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• It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.

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  Writing, Knowing, Interesting

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• We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

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  Lonely, Hardest, Knows

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.217, Penguin

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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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  Anger, Long, Mouths

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.222, Penguin

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• There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

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  Crush, Fall, Firsts

  Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.272, Penguin

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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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  Mother, Fighting, Loss

  Ally Condie (2011). “Crossed”, p.117, Penguin UK

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• I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.

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  Strong, Butterfly, Eye

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• Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.

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  Reading, Situation

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.71, Penguin

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• Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

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  Thinking, Remember

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.48, Penguin

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• Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

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  Beautiful, Reading, Relief

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

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• Teens find out a lot from other teens.

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  Teens

  "YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.

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  Girl, Mom, Opportunity

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• In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

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  Real, People, Stories

  Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.124, Penguin

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