It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
Ally CondieEvery minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
Ally CondieI realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
Ally CondieIf 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