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
strong butterfly eye
I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.
strange absence feels
And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
moving journey unwilling
You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
writing easier
Why are some things easier to write than say?
falling-in-love stories persons
Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?
choices unlikely
Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible
trying
We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
anger long mouths
It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
beautiful writing journey
Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.
breakup memories thinking
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle-it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?
pain remember forget
Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
happy-life giving minutes
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
letting-go let-it-go ends
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
might want realizing
I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.