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
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.
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.