Matched Quotes

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Why are some things easier to write than say?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I mean so many things: My heart will always fly his name. I won't go gentle. I'll find a way to soar life the angels in the stories and I will find him.”
― Ally Condie

“Lying in bed, my body and soul bruised and tired, I realize that the Officials are right. Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more. I want to pick my work position. Marry who I choose. Eat pie for breakfast and run down a real street instead of on a tracker. Go fast when I want and slow when I want. Decide which poems I want to read and what words I want to write. There is so much that I want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia.”
― Ally Condie

“And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.”
― Ally Condie

“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "what do you think she'd be life?" "You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You." We do not kiss. We do nothing bu hold on and breather, but still I know. I cannot go gently now.”
― Ally Condie

“at first when the rain fell
from the sky so wide and deep
it smelled like sage, my favorite smell
I went up on the plateau to watch it come
to see the gifts it always brought
but this rain changed from blue to black
and left
nothing.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“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”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives(Cassia 'Reached')”
― Ally Condie

“The two of us hold each other's gazes for a long, unembarrassed moment and I feel that Ky knows. I'm not sure what he knows - whether he knows me, or just something about me.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“If you are the lantern, I am the flame;
If you are the lake, then I am the rain;
If you are the desert, I am the sea;
If you are the blossom, I am the bee;
If you are the fruit, then I am the core;
If you are the rock, then I am the ore;
If you are the ballad, I am the word;
If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Lady of the Sorrows

“When it rains, I remember”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“But if you were matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
"You," he says, almost before I've finished.
"You,”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“But I didn't see it. I believed him unchanging, a stone in all good senses of the word, solid, dependable, something and someone you could build upon. But he is as we all are: light as air, transient as wisps of cloud before the sun, beautiful and fleeting, and if I ever did truly have hold of him, that has ended now.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Es curioso cómo nos aferramos a los objetos del pasado mientras aguardamos nuestro futuro.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Over the past couple of months, Chantel had become a pro at leading book discussions and inventing fun games and trivia questions that all related to that particular month's book selection. Although, last month's theme, dystopian and the book selection "Matched" by Allie Condie, had the retirement home director a little concerned when everyone wanted to stop taking their medications. Not... a good... thing!”
― JoJo Sutis, Chantel's Choice

“Xander is my Match and my oldest friend and one of the best people I know. When I kissed him, it was sweet. I'm drawn to him and tied to him with the cords of a thousand different memories”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“It was a little thing, a baby tree, but still it tangled with things around it and required care to move. And when she pulled it out, it's roots still clung to Earth from it's old home.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“It is almost uncomfortable, this awareness of him. Each pause, each movement when he places a piece on the black and gray board. 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.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“He felt a stab of satisfaction at the way her cheeks colored and her eyes darkened with trepidation. Her emotions showed readily on her face. She had translucent skin that colored easily, and it would be tempting to spend his time provoking a reaction out of her. She was a match for him in more ways than one.”
― Colleen Coble, Safe in His Arms

“But if you were matched," I say softly, "What d you think she'd be like?"
"You," He says, almost before I've finished. "You.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“When we fall in love for the first time we don't know anything. We risk a lot less than we so if we choose to love again.
There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“It was a match arranged by angels in Heaven but wrecked by demons from Hades.”
― H. Melvin James, Tares among the Wheat

“Ahora comprendo cuánto valor hace falta para escoger la vida que queremos, sea cual sea.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“In the end you can't always choose what to keep.
You can only choose how you let it go.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“After leaving Florida, I researched my Florida sickness and found it matched Radio Wave Sickness!”
― Steven Magee

“The tiny feeling of loss deep within my heart surprises me. My peers will spend the next few days swooning over pictures of their Matches, bragging about them during meal hours at school, waiting for more and more bits of information to be revealed. Anticipating their first meeting, their second meeting, and so on. That mystery does not exist for Xander and me. I won't wonder what he is like or daydream about our first meeting.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Above all, what features make you fit?
How come you know it’s time to meet?
And when you make it finally – it’s lit!”
― Lana M. Rochel, These Coloured Lenses: Lyrics