It’s all right to wonder
Ally CondieI love you," she whispers.
"I love you," I say back.
I choose her again and again and again until the pilot interrupts us and it's time to fly.
Writing, 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.
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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.
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It could have been different," I say, almost under my breath. If I'd kissed Indie again after she kissed me. If I hadn't known Cassia before I met Indie.
"But it's not," Indie says, and she's right.
Tag: possibility
I could write stories; I could hide from the world and make my own instead of trying to change it or live in it. I could make paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.
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Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.
Ally CondieSome people think the stars must look closer from up here.
They don't.
When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are--how impossible to reach.
Reaching and reached. Cassia
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