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“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“Our dead don't leave us. They'll hunt you as long as you let them.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“Life and death, they're equal to this cosmos. We enter the material world and we go away again, reincarnated into something better.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“I am interested in disgust.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Beauty is the Devil’s shade,’ Jude said.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Life was chaos. There were no rewards. Best to make the time tolerable, at least.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Be good and you'll leave nothing behind. Be bad and you'll live forever in your rotting body in the ground.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Sometimes something new can remind you of something you lost.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
“No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
"I can't.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince