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“Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?”
― A Complicated Kindness
― A Complicated Kindness
“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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