When things like this happen—when what was meant to help results in harm, when a salve brings pain instead of healing—it is clear how wrong even choices intended to be right can become.
Ally CondieMots clés choices-and-consequences
She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.
Ally CondieMots clés literature creative-expression
I never needed the Society," she says, "to Match me."
(-Lei)
Mots clés love choice free-will
If you loved someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how can you do nothing at all? You might as well take their words out of the dirt and try to snatch them from the wind. Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back.
Ally CondieI like the places where one part meets another, I think, eyes to cheek, wrist to hands.
Ally CondieNow that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
Ally CondieMots clés fantasy
I marked a map for every death
For every ache and blow
My world was all a page of black
With nothing left but snow.
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 CondieMots clés matched
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
Ally CondieIt’s harder to break something than you would think. I
wonder if the Society is finding this to be true of me as well.
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