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Conclusion to the New York Times Bestselling Matched Trilogy! Cassia’s journey began with an error, a momentary glitch in the otherwise perfect façade of the Society. After crossing canyons to break free, she waits, silk and paper smuggled against

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“If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don’t know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, motivation, strength

“Earth is a giant stone, rolling and turning through the sky. And we’re all on it together.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Earth, Together, humanity

“A little surge of bitterness goes through me like someone's shot it right into my veins with a syringe. But I know how to get over the feeling: remember that it doesn't do any good.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Bitter, Feelings, useless

“I imagine giving someone such a gift and then having it returned. Parents are always giving things that are not taken.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Parenting, gifts, Children

“We can’t plan on anyone else rescuing us. We have to do it ourselves.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Rescue, saving, Independent

“You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Suffering, Joy, Choices

“It’s all right to wonder.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Wondering, Questioning, curious

“Things happen whether you deserve them or not.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Fate, Destiny, deserving

“One person can be the world.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Everything, Dating, Relationships

“Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: caring, Love, Friendship, Vulnerable, Weak

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Misunderstanding, People, Confusion

“When we fall in love the first time, we don’t know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we choose to love again.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, First Love, risks

“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…”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, Painting, Singing, Death, Fear

“Words mean what you want them to mean.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Words, Meaning, definition

“In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Rebirth, Stories, Books

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

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Courage, Brave, Life, Decisions, Choices

“If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, Faith, Death

“You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

Tagged: Change, Life, Journey, Moving Forward