And the hundred million cowards,’ Abdul Ghani continued, pinching the handle of the teacup between his plump fingers, ‘they are the bureaucrats and paper shufflers and pen-pushers who permit the rule...
And little by little, things settled down to the semblance of peace that’s good enough, when you know enough about bad enough.
And her forehead was always slightly creased in the centre, between the brows, as if she was grasping, in those soft folds of skin, the monstrous and pitiable understanding that no happiness exists wi...
An amateur is anyone who hasn’t learned how not to do it,’ I said.
A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there’s no river.
A man must love his bear.
A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.
A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.
A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet.
— Хората твърдят, че парите били коренът на всяко зло...Но това не е вярно. Точно обратното е. Парите не са коренът на всичкото зло. _Злото_ е коренът на всички _пари_. Няма такова нещо като чисти пар...
Наричат го Надпреварата на Черната царица. От една книга е, „Алиса в страната на чудесата.— Знам я — отвърна Санджай. — Учихме я в училище. Но така и не я разбрах.— Няма нищо, нея никой не я разбира....
Мигове, които наум нарекох величествени, докато тичах към стрелящите дула; тези глупаво погубени животи, този приятелски огън. В това нямаше величие. И никога няма. Има само храброст и страх, и обич....
When we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.
Want it, and that’s why I’m going to Khaled and Idriss—because I don’t feel sorry for any of it, and I don’t regret a thing. I’m cold inside, Lin. I like people, and I like things, but I don’t love an...
The student is ready, the teacher appears—do
Into trouble we didn’t need. And I tried to talk Khaderbhai out of it. I tried to get them to stop. But I didn’t feel anything about it, even when they killed Madjid. And I . . . I used to like him, y...
If we envy someone for all the right reasons, we’re half way to wisdom.
To make sure none followed where you ledI used my hair to cover our tracks.Sun set on the island of our bednight roseeating echoesand we were beached there, in tangles of flicker, candles whispering a...
The wonder isn’t that love finds us, as strange and fated and mystical as that is. The wonder is that even when we never find it, even when love waits in the wings of dream too long, even when love do...
That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart. Two hundred fuckin' languages, and a billion people. India is the heart. It's the heart that keeps us together. There's no place with peo...