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“book A Place Called Lost the author believed that every hardship in life was a key to some greater understanding, and it was up to you if you chose to use it to unlock the future or bolt the door.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Akhila, may you also have the good fortune of having your children arrange your wedding,’ and spat out enough bitterness for a lifetime.”
― Banu Mushtaq, Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

“Though Diwali celebrated light banishing darkness, Ravana was not a flat villain. And Ram was not an infallible hero.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on. Laila thinks of her own life and all that has happened to her, and she is astonished that she too has survived, that she is alive and sitting in this taxi listening to this man's story.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns