Ally Condie
Ally Condie
Allyson Braithwaite Condie is an American writer of young-adult fiction, primarily under the name Ally Condie. She wrote the Matched trilogy, a science fiction dystopia, whose first book, Matched, was a New York Times Best Seller...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
girl mom opportunity
I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt 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 havent thought of yet.
teens
Teens find out a lot from other teens.
dream simple everyday-things
Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have
together use bones
If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.
thinking remember
Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
appreciate too-much overwhelmed
How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
hurt glasses break-out
I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
spring real color
Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
choices chance one-thing
It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
lonely hardest could-have-been
We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
strength wonder matched
I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
want-something want things-change
Once you want something, everything changes.
night way found
Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
honesty cutting balance
This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.