Still, she felt at ease knowing that their eldest sibling cared for their mother at his home in Karachi.

— Sadaf Shahzad, The Lies that Comfort Us

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The Lies that Comfort Us

by Sadaf Shahzad

Contemporary Fiction · 100 pages

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“A heart, bruised and battered, bleeding all over her soul staining it perhaps permanently; was it a lost cause?”

— Sadaf Shahzad, Broken Strings

““We can’t always protect the ones we love,” Ansa gazed off into the distance lost in her own thoughts.”

— Sadaf Shahzad, Broken Strings

“The sting of that light slap burned hotter and hotter until she lost sense of her surroundings and the present morphed into the past.”

— Sadaf Shahzad, Broken Strings

“The truth is that pleasing society damages your self-respect and self-worth like nothing else.”

— Sadaf Shahzad, Broken Strings

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Sadaf Shahzad

One of the most random contradictory people you will ever meet, I love trying anything and everything I am remotely good at. My true loves are Chemistry, reading and writing fiction, beauty bloggin…

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