If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you. I like lost.

— Ally Condie

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

— Ally Condie

I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it.

— Ally Condie

I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.

— Ally Condie

I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is

— Ally Condie

I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. 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

I love you."lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel it, I know it. My eyes on him, his on me, and both of us breathing, watching, tired of waiting. Ky close his eyes, but mine are still open. What will it feel like, his lips on mine? Like a secret told, a promise kept? Like that line in the poem-a shower of all my days-silvery rain falling all around me, where the lighting meets the earth? The whistle blows below us and the moment breaks. We are safe. For now.

— Ally Condie

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.

— Ally Condie

I'm so

— Ally Condie

I never needed the Society," she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)

— Ally Condie