While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.
– Viet Thanh Nguyen
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- This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before. – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- no one asks poor people if they want war. – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- …nothing is more precious than independence and freedom… – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat? – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors. – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth. – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others. – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Remember, you’re not half of anything, you’re twice of everything. – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. – Charles ens
- I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren’t the same thing. – Maggie Stiefvater
- If you’re not hated by many, you’re not good enough yet, because God hates and always hated the majority for good reasons. – Daniel Marques
- You kill one, there was another in his place, and what’s worse, his nephew now hated you, his friend now hated you. . . . There was no end. – Juliana Barbassa
- It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you. – Elif Shafak
- You hated what we had done, and it had meant so much to me. I hated you after that. – SC Stephens
- I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all -¦ your -¦ fault! – James Dashner
- I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all -¦ your -¦ fault! – James Dashner
- I’ve been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silenceso far, without spilling a drop. – Jeffrey McDaniel
- We are born to be loved, we live to be loved, and we die to be loved; so life is for love. – Debasish Mridha
- How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far? – Bert Murray
- We can hardly get to the very far for the very far we can think of is the far we have not yet reach – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far. – Arzum Uzun
- And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold. – Eugen RosenstockHuessy
- I have always been loved and hated for the same reason and by the same people. – Kambiz Shabankare
- I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. – Liesel Meminger – Markus Zusak
- I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn’t do this to someone I hated. – Sarah Thebarge
- The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved. – Billy Graham
- Loki’s green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled. – Neil Gaiman
- He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again. – Emily Bront
- She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all – Rick Yancey
- We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly… – Seanan McGuire
- she hated everything her parents loved – Stephen Chbosky
- Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody. – J Christopher Herold
- Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it. – Kenneth Eade
- They say there is a fine line between love and hate. I once loved Kaleib like a brother, now I hated him with the same conviction. – Amanda Leigh
- They had a deal before parting waysHe kept the good memoriesShe kept the bad memoriesHe loved her rest of his lifeShe hated him rest of her life – Subhasis Das
- I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. – Markus Zusak
- The only man she ever loved. And hated. – Mary Papas