Quotes from Ally Condie

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

Some things are created to be together.

I love. The most reckless thing of all.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

Once you want something, everything changes.

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?

I was born and raised in southern Utah.

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.

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.