Ally Condie Quotes

• We are the ones who are alive. Here. With everything to lose.

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• Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.

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• The salt of his tears tastes like the see and I don’t see the shore.

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• There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

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• The Society isn’t human, but the people work for it sometimes are.

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• For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.

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• He knows exactly how to play, and that’s why he loses every time.

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• Sometimes it’s faster and more efficient to destroy.

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• They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing.

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• When you can’t cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.

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• Maybe only parts of our stories can keep us safe. The whole can feel like too much to bear.

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• Because in the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

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• We don’t need to understand everything.

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• I decided that it was the thoughts in your own mind that mattered more than anything else.

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• It’s never really lost to you as long as you remember it.

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• Which goes to show that caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

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• Sometimes paper is just paper, words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don’t be afraid to remember that.

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• Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back.

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• I wonder if death will always taste this good.

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• Some things are created to be together.

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Ally Condie (70)

Birth:	1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Teacher

About

Ally Condie is an American novelist. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Matched which was published by Dutton on November 30, 2010. It is the first book of a trilogy, followed by Crossed, published on November 1, 2011, and Reached, published on November 13, 2012.  Ally Condie is a former high school English teacher who lives with her husband, three sons and one daughter outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, running, eating, and listening to her husband play guitar.

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