Quotes from Ally Condie

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)

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

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)

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

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't 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 haven't thought of yet.'

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.

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.

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

Once you want something, everything changes.

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

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

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.

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

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.

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

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

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't 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 haven't thought of yet.'

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.

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

There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.