“Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“When we are young,” Jasnah said, “we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
― New Spring
― New Spring
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