Ally Condie, Matched
"What did you think about" I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won't do it again. And besides, I wasn't thinking about Xander either. "I thought about angels," I say."Angels"You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven." "Do you think anyone believes in them anymore" He asks."I don't know. No. Do you"I believe in you," he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. "That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have."
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"What did you think about" I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won't do it again. And besides, I wasn't thinking about Xander either. "I thought about angels," I say."Angels"You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven." "Do you think anyone believes in them anymore" He asks."I don't know. No. Do you"I believe in you," he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. "That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have."
Ally Condie, Matched
"Ky gives me three gifts for my birthday. A poem, a kiss and the hopeless, beautiful belief that things might work. When I open my eyes... I say, "I didn't give you anything for your birthday, i don't even know when it is." And he says, "Don't worry about that" and I say, "What can I do" and he answers, "Let me believe in this, all of this, and you believe it too."And I do."
Ally Condie, Matched
"For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives."
Ally Condie, Matched
"All of the things that were shown in early studies to be good for longevity—happy marriages, healthy bodies—are ours to have. We live long,good lives. We die on our eightieth birthdays, surrounded by our families, before dementia sets in. Cancer, heart disease, and most debilitatingillnesses are almost entirely eradicated. This is as close to perfect as any society has ever managed to get."
Ally Condie, Matched
"It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures."
Ally Condie, Matched
"Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it"
Ally Condie, Matched
"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."
Ally Condie, Matched
"At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself. I did not expect to love his words. I did no expect to find myself in the."
Ally Condie, Matched
"Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how."
Ally Condie, Matched
"I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys."
Ally Condie, Matched
"Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?"
Ally Condie, Matched
"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."
Ally Condie, Matched
"Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt at peace. It was as though I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions."
Ally Condie, Matched
"He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel."
Ally Condie, Matched
"Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back"
Ally Condie, Matched
"at first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deepit smelled like sage, my favorite smell I went up on the plateau to watch it cometo see the gifts it always broughtbut this rain changed from blue to black and leftnothing."
Ally Condie, Matched
"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)"
Ally Condie, Matched
"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 like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle. I love you. (Ky Markham)"
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