The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.

J. Courtney Sullivan
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In the novel "A Thousand Splendid Suns," Khaled Hosseini, a man who has been through a lot in his life, talks about the differences between the surface and the underneath of life. What he says is that there is a layer of lies that society tells us that hides all of the truth. The lies are what make us think that everything is pretty and perfect, but underneath lies a truth that we don’t want to see. A woman’s relationship with a man is an example of how lies can make us believe something isn’t true. We don’t want to admit that men and women aren’t always as nice as they seem on the surface.

Source: Commencement

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