Ally Condie

“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. I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s l...”

“Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, yo...”

“That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)”

“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”

“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”

“Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why tell his story?' I don't understand, and for a second I feel betrayed....”

“at first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deep it smelled like sage, my favorite smell I went up on the plateau to watch it come to see the gifts it always brought but this rain c...”

“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 mak...”

“Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back”

“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.”

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