And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. ✨ Ally Condie (…

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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.224, Penguin
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I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.113, Penguin
If 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 un … ▶
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I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens. ✨ Ally Condie (2011). Matched, p.216, Penguin
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