Pawanraj

“Qasim Ali said that night, his bark-coloured eyes softening on the two young men, ‘because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

“When we're young, we think that suffering is something that's done to us. When we get older- when the steel door slams shut, in one way or another-we know that real suffering is measured by what's taken away from us.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“the ghetto existed on a foundation of those anonymous, unthankable deeds; insignificant and almost trivial in themselves, but collectively essential to the survival of the slum.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram