"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."

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Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.214, Penguin

Ally Condie

#Honesty Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Balance Quotes

“Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.”
“Some coaches spend their time trying to get an overview of all eleven defenders. I prefer to zero in on one guy at a time to get the right clue.”
“Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.”
“The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.”

Source : The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)
“We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.”
“You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.”
“I always like to try to bring whatever I can to what is on the page, so I like to find as much dimension as I can, in each role.”
“Someone else's opinion of me- does not change my opinion of me.”

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