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 it tangles my hair, leaves wate on my face, makes me know that I am alive, alive, alive.
Ally CondieBut my father goes on."And I've noticed other things,too.I think you're in love with Ky Markham.I think you want to find him,wherever he's gone.
Ally CondieYou cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
Ally CondieTags: inspirational change courage matched cassia reached
He unknowingly throws me a lifeline with those words. I am not drowning in worry anymore. I am neck deep and it still washes over me in cold waves, but now I can breathe.
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 CondieAnd it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed.
Ally CondieI wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.
Ally CondieI realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
Ally CondieWhich goes to show that caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.
Ally CondieIt's nice, isn't it... to be part of something greater than yourself.
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