“Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
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