Matched Quotes

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?.

Once you want something, everything changes.

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

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

Why are some things easier to write than say?.

Cassia. I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle. I love you. (Ky Markham).

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.

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).

So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I mean so many things: My heart will always fly his name. I won't go gentle. I'll find a way to soar like the angels in the stories and I will find him. And I know he understands as he looks straight at me, deep into my eyes. His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know. Tears well up but I blink them away. Because if there is one moment in my life that I want to see clearly, this is it.

I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.

I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.

Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he just lost. He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time.

I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

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

His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know.

No one should die alone.

I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.

Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?.

Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

I love you." lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel it, I know it. My eyes on him, his on me, and both of us breathing, watching, tired of of waiting. Ky close his eyes, but mine are still open. what will it feel like, his lips on mine? Like a secret told, a promise kept? Like that line in the poem-a shower of all my days- silvery rain falling all around me, where the lighting meets the earth? The whistle blows below us and the moment breaks. We are safe. For now.

How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?.

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

It's all right to wonder.

They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. They have perfected the art of giving us just enought freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog... - Cassia.

There's a reason they didn't keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight.

In the absence of real thunder, he's making his own.

Are you congratulating me on my life, or on my death?.

Our time together feels like a storm, like wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape. It blows around me and tangles my hair, leaves water on my face, makes me know that I am alive, alive, alive. There are moments of calm and pause as there are in every storm, and moments when our words fork lightening, at least for each other.

For what is the point of having something lovely if you never share it? It would be like having a poem, a beautiful wild poem that no one else has, and burning it.

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.

I like the places where one part meets another, I think, eyes to cheek, wrist to hands.

I see his eyes, bright with life adnfire, and I know he won't stop fighting. Even if it's the kind of quiet fight on the inside that you can't always see. And I won't stop fighting either.

Even if he didn't live his story, enough of us have lives just like it. So it's true anyway.

And as the Society reminds us, there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge doesn't fail us.

Only when I hold onto nothing can I be the best, only then can I be what they expect me to be.

Because either way, whichever life I build, has to be built on truth.

Some things are created to be together.

This is the difference between us. I live to sort, he knows how to create.

It's never really lost to you as long as you remember it.

Oh yes. His voice has music.

They were too much to carry so I left them behind for a new life, in a new place but no one forgot who I was.

My words never last long. I have to destroy them before anyone sees them. But. I remember them all. For some reason, the act of writing them down makes me remember. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones. And when I see Ky again, which I know will happen, I will whisper the words I have written in his ear, against his lips. and they will change from ash and nothing into flesh and blood.

I wonder if death will always taste this good.

We spent half the summer marking these paths!.

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

We don't need to understand everything.

Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back.

... and of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all.

think of him risking everything each time he slips one napkin into his pocket. All these years he’s been so careful, but now he’s willing to take a chance. Because he’s found someone who wants to know. Someone he wants to tell.

It’s harder to break something than you would think. I wonder if the Society is finding this to be true of me as well.

Which one is the true one, I don’t ask, they don’t tell.

Let me believe in this, all of this, and you believe it too. (Ky Markham).

None of that is supposed to matter. But somehow, it does.

Can you climb high enough to get above the clouds, look down on the rain from a place in the sun?.

Being with Ky, being with Xander -both things feel like standing in the light. Different types of light, but neither feels dark.

I believe in you," he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. "That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have.

at first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deep it smelled like sage, my favorite smell I went up on the plateau to watch it come to see the gifts it always brought but this rain changed from blue to black and left nothing.

It's hard to know which ways to be strong.

I wouldn't take that tablet Cassia. Not for a report. And perhaps not ever. You are strong enough to go without it.

And when I see Ky again, which I know will happen, I will whisper the words I have written in his ear, against his lips. And they will change from ash and nothing into flesh and blood.

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.

He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time.

I'm drawn to him and tied to him with the cords of a thousand different memories.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how to let it go.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want,pooled in the shape of a girl.

I couldn’t sleep all night, worrying that I’d gotten you in trouble. I care about you.

If I can't pull myself together soon he'll know somethings wrong. We know each other too well.

Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him?.

Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why tell his story?' I don't understand, and for a second I feel betrayed. Why did Ky tell me about this person and make me feel empathy for him when there's no proof that he ever lived at all? Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, ...'Even if he didn't live his story, enough of us have lived lives just like it. So it's true anyway.

Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have.

Ky's story, bit by bit, is turning to ash and nothing. Except. He remembers it, and now I do, too.

That's when I realize that the statistics the Officials give us do not matter to me. I know there are many people who are happy and I am glad for them. But this is Ky. If he is the one person who falls by the wayside while the other ninety-nine are happy and fulfilled, that is not right with me anymore. I realize that I don't care about the Officer pacing below or the other hikers among the trees, or really anything else at all, and that is when I realize how dangerous this truly is.

And then he says it, right there on the Hill, and of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all. 'I love you.

They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing.