Ally Condie

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

"Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not."

"One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side."

"He watches the sun out of the world and the stars into it and sometimes I wonder if he watches the sun come up again. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment, even those that would otherwise seem dull and unremarkable?"

"...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us."

"And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing."