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The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.

eats most of his meals

But I always connected to the people and the purity of their faith, rather than the religious code they followed.

It's a fact of life on the run that you often love more people than you trust.

The fully mature man or woman, he said, has about two seconds left to live.

It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn't even matter what you are. It's what you try to be that counts.

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.

What we tell, is rarely what we do.

Like most things, and most people, it's not as bad as it looks from the outside.

Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

Divorce is healthier than the stock exchange, and way more predictable.

The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore.

Love makes men big, and hate makes them small.

There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor.

I surrendered to India, as I did every day, then, and as I still do, every day of my life, no matter where I am in the world.

You marry them,' Blue Hijab said, 'hoping they'll change, and grow. And they marry us, hoping that we won't.

We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, don't you find?

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.

I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.

Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

Listen, where are you going?' 'What?' 'Where

I don't like letters. Any dark past is a vampire, feeding on the blood of the living moment, and letters are the bats.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke.

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

We are made out of stars, you and I.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

A man must love his bear.

So when will be the time to get on the train?
I think ... a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

But I didn't know that then. I washed my hands in the cold, uncaring sea, and my conscience was as silent and remote as the mute, unreachable stars.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

[It was] a beauty that sours if it isn't nourished by some goodness within.

Sometimes the river of life takes you to the rocks. The letter,

Kurtapyjama. His face was deeply lined, and his white

Fate needs accomplices,

We can only avoid chaos in the world of human affairs by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of morality.

the student is ready, the teacher appears - do

it's a very hard thing to resist, real goodness, in a tough man.

It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

How can you sit next to this filthy gay?' he asked me.
'It's called gravity,' I said. 'Look it up, when you have an afternoon to spare.

A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the dream a nightmare.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.

Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.

What is civilisation? Idriss once remarked. It's a woman, free to live as she wants.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

She was a woman to admire and to desire, but the message in her eye and her bearing was unmistakable: offend or disesteem her at your peril.

The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

There's no believing in God ... We either know God, or we don't.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

All political systems favour the powerful rich over the defenceless poor.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.

The statement I do not hate you is a poem of passionate love.

Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims

A strong man can make his own luck.

Out at them, turning this way and that, his face cramped in an expression

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.

There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.

We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.

Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

The Big Questions only have small answers, and the Big Answers can only be found through small questions.

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

Instinct chooses her own children.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever..

But the past has a way of taking you to the right place at the wrong time, and that can be a storm inside.

Every human heartbeat, he's said many times, is a universe of possibilities.

Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.

So it begins, this story, like everything else - with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives.

Powerful people have no regrets.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.
- Karla

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

The force is always with you, if you give up force,

The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.

I love you because I choose you and I choose you because I love you.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

When you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.

I hate it when people take so long to drink a single glass. IT is like putting on a condom to masturbate.

They are not true Marxist, nor true Leninist. The Russians are imperialists.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

A man has to respect himself bofore he can respect anyone else.