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.
Ally CondieI realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
Ally CondieEverything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. Thatโs how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have
Ally CondieWriting, 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 our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.
Ally Condie