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“Walk out,†he repeated. “We need to talk.†“About how you need to sacrifice me to get a human body?†I asked, my tone light, my insides feeling leaden. “That might be cute if you thought it was true.”
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“Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”
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“Like my daddy always said, where there's a way, there's a will.”
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“A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.”
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“What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself”
Source : Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.1, Arcade Publishing
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“The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.”
Source : "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.
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“My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.”
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“The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.”
