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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 Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Deep
Truths
Share
Ruins
Difficult
Wounds
Keep
Heal
Truth
Honesty
Much
Telling
Balance
Wound
Cutting
Ruin

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I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.
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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
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There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
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I'm falling in love. I am in love. And it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.
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I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
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Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?
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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.
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It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
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Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
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