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.
—Ally Condie in Matched
—Ally Condie in Matched
Allyson Braithwaite Condie (born November 2, 1978) is an author of young adult and middle grade fiction. Her novel Matched was a #1 New York Times and international bestseller, and spent over a year on the New York Times Bestseller List. The sequels (Crossed and Reached) are also New York...
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
—Ally Condie in Crossed
We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
—Ally Condie in Matched
—Ally Condie in First Day