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
thinking hands remember-where-you-came
I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.
beautiful love-you first-love
Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving let's 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, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete.
reckless
I love. The most reckless thing of all.
want-something want things-change
Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
caring vulnerable
Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
thinking sky laughing
And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
heart hands waiting
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.
past worry world
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
together
Some things are created to be together.
i-love-you falling-in-love different
I'm falling in love. I am in love. And it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.
life righteous
I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
life people needs
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.
writing knowing interesting
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
beautiful reading world
Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.