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
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.
past waiting pieces
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
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.
addition analytical decided english good husband liked lots met played poetry teacher time wrote
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.
colorful dead feels life sharp throw
There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
born raised southern
I was born and raised in southern Utah.
choosing difficult good life
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.
beauty change experience future lets power worlds
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
real people stories
In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.
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.