Quotes from Ally Condie, Matched

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

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.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

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.

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.

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,

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?